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σκᾶπτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκᾶπτον σκᾶπτου

Structure: σκαπτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: doric for skh=ptron.

Sense

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκᾶπτον σκάπτω σκάπτα
Genitive σκάπτου σκάπτοιν σκάπτων
Dative σκάπτῳ σκάπτοιν σκάπτοις
Accusative σκᾶπτον σκάπτω σκάπτα
Vocative σκάπτον σκάπτω σκάπτα

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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ ἀληθινὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ γεωργὸσ οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτομάτωσ ἐρχόμενον ἐκ πόλεωσ λόγον ἡδέωσ προσδέχεται, λέγων, εἶτά μοι σκάπτων ἐρεῖ ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 3:4)
  • οὐδὲ τὸν αὐτομάτωσ ἐρχόμενον ἐκ πόλεωσ λόγον ἡδέωσ προσδέχεται, λέγων εἶτά μοι σκάπτων ἐρεῖ, ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 8:1)
  • οὕτωσ μὲν Ῥωμαϊκὸσ οἰκέτησ, ὁ δ’ Ἀττικὸσ ἐρεῖ τῷ δεσπότῃ σκάπτων ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 18 1:9)
  • οὕτω μὲν Ῥωμαϊκὸσ οἰκέτησ, ὁ δ’ Ἀττικὸσ ἐρεῖ τῷ δεσπότῃ σκάπτων ἐφ’ οἷσ γεγόνασιν αἱ διαλύσεισ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 18 4:2)
  • "εἰ τὸν ἀγρὸν ἔμελλεν ἐγκωμιάζων εὔφορον ποιεῖν καὶ εὔκαρπον, εἶτ’ οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτάνειν ἐδόκει τοῦτο μὴ ποιῶν μᾶλλον ἢ σκάπτων καὶ πράγματα ἔχων; (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 16 5:1)

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

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