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σκαπανεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαπανεύς σκαπανέως

Structure: σκαπανευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = skafeu/s, Luc.

Sense

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

  • πλὴν εἰ μὴ σκαπανέα γε καὶ ὑδροφόρον αὐτὸν ἀποδεικτέον. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 7:12)
  • τί παθὼν οὖν τοιοῦτόσ ἐστιν, αὐχμηρόσ, ἄθλιοσ,^ καὶ σκαπανεὺσ καὶ μισθωτόσ, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, οὕτω βαρεῖαν καταφέρων τὴν δίκελλαν; (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 7:10)
  • οἱ δ’ οὕτωσ ἀγροίκωσ ἐδέξαντο τὴν ἐπιχείρησιν τὴν τοιαύτην ὥστε οὐ μόνον τὸν ποιητὴν σκαπανέωσ ἢ θεριστοῦ δίκην ἐκ πάσησ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ἐπιστήμησ ἐξέβαλον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺσ ἁψαμένουσ τῆσ τοιαύτησ πραγματείασ μαινομένουσ ὑπέλαβον· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 4 8:2)

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

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