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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

Examples

  • ὁ δεινόσ, ὁ ταλαύρινοσ, ὃσ τὴν Γοργόνα πάλλει κραδαίνων τρισὶ κατάσκιοσ λόφοισ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode7)
  • ἐκ γὰρ τοῦ Νείλου διώρυχεσ ἐσέχουσι οὐ συμμίσγουσαι ἀλλήλῃσι, ἀλλ’ ἄχρι τῆσ ἐσόδου τοῦ ἱροῦ ἑκατέρη ἐσέχει, ἣ μὲν τῇ περιρρέουσα ἣ δὲ τῇ, εὖροσ ἐοῦσα ἑκατέρη ἑκατὸν ποδῶν, δένδρεσι κατάσκιοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 138 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. shaded or covered with

  2. overshadowing

Related

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

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