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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

  • τοιαῦτ’ ἀυτῶν τρεῖσ κατασκίουσ λόφουσ σείει, κράνουσ χαίτωμ’, ὑπ’ ἀσπίδοσ δ’ ἔσω χαλκήλατοι κλάζουσι κώδωνεσ φόβον· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode9)
  • πέφρικα λεύσσων τάσδ’ ἕδρασ κατασκίουσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode 8:21)
  • προκεῖσθαι δὲ νήσουσ τρεῖσ, δύο μὲν ἐλαίαισ κατασκίουσ, μίαν δ’ ἧττον κατάσκιον, μελεαγρίδων μεστήν· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 10:7)

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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