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σκαιότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαιότης σκαιότητος

Structure: σκαιοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: skaio/s III.

Sense

  1. lefthandedness, awkwardness

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἥδιστον, τοῦ τρόπου δὲ γνωρίσματα δυσκολία καὶ τραχύτησ καὶ σκαιότησ καὶ ὀργὴ καὶ ἀπανθρωπία· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 42:16)
  • πολλῆσ ἀργίασ ἦν καὶ σκαιότητοσ ἀλεξιφάρμακον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2413)
  • "ὅθεν διὰ σκαιότητοσ ἔνιοι φίλων καὶ οἰκείων, σβεννύναι πειρωμένων βίᾳ καὶ ἀλόγωσ τὸ πάθοσ, οὐδὲν ἀπέλαυσαν αὐτοῦ χρηστὸν ἀλλ’ ἢ καπνοῦ καὶ ταραχῆσ ἐνέπλησαν ἑαυτοὺσ ἢ πρὸσ ἡδονὰσ σκοτίουσ καὶ παρανόμουσ ῥυέντεσ ἀκλεῶσ ἐμαράνθησαν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 19 3:20)
  • "τὸ γὰρ ἐσθίειν πολλὰ καὶ κρεοφαγεῖν τοὺσ μὲν λογισμοὺσ ἐξαιρεῖ καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ ποιεῖται βραδυτέρασ, ὀργῆσ δὲ καὶ σκληρότητοσ καὶ πολλῆσ σκαιότητοσ ἐμπίπλησι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4533)
  • ἡδέωσ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὀνομάτων τὰσ μεταθέσεισ οἱ πατέρεσ προσδέχονται καὶ πιστεύουσι τοῖσ υἱοῖσ ἁπλότητα μὲν τὴν ῥᾳθυμίαν τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὀνομάζουσιν, ὀρθότητα δὲ τὴν σκαιότητα, τὸ δὲ φιλόνεικον ἀκαταφρόνητον· (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 9 2:2)

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

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