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σκέδασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκέδασις σκέδασεως

Structure: σκεδασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a scattering

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

  • τάδε μὲν ὦν ἐσ τὴν τοῦ παροξυσμοῦ παρηγορίην, καὶ σκέδασιν τοῦ ζοφώδεοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 85)
  • τὴν δὲ πολὺ πρῶτοσ ἴδε Τηλέμαχοσ θεοειδήσ, ἧστο γὰρ ἐν μνηστῆρσι φίλον τετιημένοσ ἦτορ, ὀσσόμενοσ πατέρ’ ἐσθλὸν ἐνὶ φρεσίν, εἴ ποθεν ἐλθὼν μνηστήρων τῶν μὲν σκέδασιν κατὰ δώματα θείη, τιμὴν δ’ αὐτὸσ ἔχοι καὶ δώμασιν οἷσιν ἀνάσσοι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 11:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔτι τὸν δύστηνον ὀί̈ομαι, εἴ ποθεν ἐλθὼν ἀνδρῶν μνηστήρων σκέδασιν κατὰ δώματα θείῃ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 34:16)

Synonyms

  1. a scattering

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

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