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σκαφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαφεύς σκαφέως

Structure: σκαφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ska/ptw

Sense

  1. a digger, delver, ditcher

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκαφεύς σκαφή σκαφής
Genitive σκαφέως σκαφέοιν σκαφέων
Dative σκαφεί σκαφέοιν σκαφεῦσιν*
Accusative σκαφέα σκαφή σκαφέᾱς
Vocative σκαφεύ σκαφή σκαφής

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

  • σκαφεύσ τισ ἢ βουφορβὸσ ἄξιοσ δόμων. (Euripides, episode44)
  • ταῦτα δ’ Ἱππῶναξ σκαφεὺσ οἶδεν ἄριστα βροτῶν, οἶδεν δὲ κ’ Ἀρίφαντοσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 416)
  • ἔπλων δ’ ὅτ’ ἔπλωεν ἐκεῖνοσ τῇδε, Φιλιππείων ἀντίπαλοσ σκαφέων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 169 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a digger

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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