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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative σκαιός σκαιᾱ́ σκαιόν
Genitive σκαιοῦ σκαιᾶς σκαιοῦ
Dative σκαιῷ σκαιᾷ σκαιῷ
Accusative σκαιόν σκαιᾱ́ν σκαιόν
Vocative σκαιέ σκαιᾱ́ σκαιόν
DualN/A/V σκαιώ σκαιᾱ́ σκαιώ
G/D σκαιοῖν σκαιαῖν σκαιοῖν
PluralNominative σκαιοί σκαιαί σκαιά
Genitive σκαιῶν σκαιῶν σκαιῶν
Dative σκαιοῖς σκαιαῖς σκαιοῖς
Accusative σκαιούς σκαιᾱ́ς σκαιά
Vocative σκαιοί σκαιαί σκαιά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective σκαιός σκαιοῦ σκαιώτερος σκαιωτεροῦ σκαιώτατος σκαιωτατοῦ
Adverb σκαιώς σκαιώτερον σκαιώτατα

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

  • τὸ σκαιὸν ὄμμα παραβαλὼν θύννου δίκην, ὡσ τοῦ θύννου τῷ σκαιῷ ὀφθαλμῷ οὐ βλέποντοσ, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ εἴρηκεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 66 1:2)
  • τοῦ μὲν ἄκρην ἐκόλουσεν ἐπὶ σκαιὸν γόνυ χεῖρα φάσγανον ὀξὺ φέροντοσ ὑπεξαναβὰσ ποδὶ Κάστωρ σκαιῷ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 125)
  • μετενόει δέ, ὅτι εἰσ λόγουσ ἠξίωσεν ἐλθεῖν ἀνδρὶ σκαιῷ τε καὶ ἀλαζόνι, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ἐνόμιζεν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. side

  2. gauche

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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