Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκαιός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαιός σκαιή σκαιόν

Structure: σκαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. side, with the left hand
  2. western, westward, auspex, had the west on his left;, the west gate, western
  3. unlucky, ill-omened, mischievous, appeared on the left or in the west
  4. gauche, lefthanded, awkward, clumsy

Examples

  • Ἄρχανδροσ Ἀχαιοῦ καὶ Ἀρχιτέλησ ἐσ Ἄργοσ ἀφίκοντο ἐκ τῆσ Φθιώτιδοσ, ἐλθόντεσ δὲ ἐγένοντο Δαναοῦ γαμβροί, καὶ Αὐτομάτην μὲν Ἀρχιτέλησ, Σκαιὰν δὲ ἔλαβεν Ἄρχανδροσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. side

  2. gauche

Related

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

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