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κατάσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάσκιος κατάσκιον

Structure: κατασκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skia/

Sense

  1. shaded or covered with
  2. overshadowing

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative κατάσκιος κατάσκιον
Genitive κατασκίου κατασκίου
Dative κατασκίῳ κατασκίῳ
Accusative κατάσκιον κατάσκιον
Vocative κατάσκιε κατάσκιον
DualN/A/V κατασκίω κατασκίω
G/D κατασκίοιν κατασκίοιν
PluralNominative κατάσκιοι κατάσκια
Genitive κατασκίων κατασκίων
Dative κατασκίοις κατασκίοις
Accusative κατασκίους κατάσκια
Vocative κατάσκιοι κατάσκια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κατάσκιος κατασκίου κατασκιώτερος κατασκιωτέρου κατασκιώτατος κατασκιωτάτου
Adverb κατασκίως κατασκιώτερον κατασκιώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ εἰσήγαγον αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ἣν ᾖρα τὴν χεῖρά μου τοῦ δοῦναι αὐτὴν αὐτοῖσ, καὶ εἶδον πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ πᾶν ξύλον κατάσκιον καὶ ἔθυσαν ἐκεῖ τοῖσ θεοῖσ αὐτῶν καὶ ἔταξαν ἐκεῖ ὀσμὴν εὐωδίασ καὶ ἔσπεισαν ἐκεῖ τὰσ σπονδὰσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 20:28)
  • θῆρεσ δὲ φρίσσουσ’, οὐρὰσ δ’ ὑπὸ μέζε’ ἔθεντο, τῶν καὶ λάχνῃ δέρμα κατάσκιον· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 59:4)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐσ ἄλσοσ ἔβα δάφναισι κατάσκιον ποσὶν πάισ Διόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 38 3:1)
  • ὁρῶ κλάδοισι νεοδρόποισ κατάσκιον νεύονθ’ ὅμιλον τόνδ’ ἀγωνίων θεῶν. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 1 1:1)
  • ἐκ δὲ τοῦδ’ ἄνω βλαστεῖν βρύοντα θαλλόν, ᾧ κατάσκιον πᾶσαν γενέσθαι τὴν Μυκηναίων χθόνα. (Sophocles, episode 6:5)

Synonyms

  1. shaded or covered with

  2. overshadowing

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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