Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκέπας

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκέπας σκέπαος

Structure: σκεπα (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ske/pw

Sense

  1. a covering, shelter, shelter, shelter

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

  • ἀρκεῖ μοι χλαίνησ λιτὸν σκέπασ, οὐδὲ τραπέζαισ δουλεύσω, Μουσέων ἄνθεα βοσκόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 431)
  • λέκτρα μάτην μίμνοντα καὶ ἄπρηκτον σκέπασ εὐνῆσ ἄνθετο σοί, Μήνη, σὸσ φίλοσ Ἐνδυμίων, αἰδόμενοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 581)
  • Καυσίη, ἡ τὸ πάροιθε Μακηδόσιν εὔκολον ὅπλον, καὶ σκέπασ ἐν νιφετῷ, καὶ κόρυσ ἐν πολέμῳ, ἱδρῶ διψήσασα πιεῖν τεόν, ἄλκιμε Πείσων, Ἡμαθὶσ Αὐσονίουσ ἦλθον ἐπὶ κροτάφουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3351)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ ποταμοῖο κατὰ στόμα καλλιρόοιο ἷξε νέων, τῇ δή οἱ ἐείσατο χῶροσ ἄριστοσ, λεῖοσ πετράων, καὶ ἐπὶ σκέπασ ἦν ἀνέμοιο, ἔγνω δὲ προρέοντα καὶ εὔξατο ὃν κατὰ θυμόν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 45:9)
  • ἀλλὰ δότ’, ἀμφίπολοι, ξείνῳ βρῶσίν τε πόσιν τε, λούσατέ τ’ ἐν ποταμῷ, ὅθ’ ἐπὶ σκέπασ ἔστ’ ἀνέμοιο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 18:10)

Synonyms

  1. a covering

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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