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σκηνίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκηνίτης σκηνίτου

Structure: σκηνιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dweller in tents, a low fellow

Declension

First 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

  • τρίτον δ’ ἐστὶ φῦλον τὸ τῶν βουκόλων καὶ ποιμένων καὶ καθόλου πάντων τῶν νομέων, οἳ πόλιν μὲν ἢ κώμην οὐκ οἰκοῦσι, σκηνίτῃ δὲ βίῳ χρῶνται, οἱ δ’ αὐτοὶ καὶ κυνηγοῦντεσ καθαρὰν ποιοῦσι τὴν χώραν ὀρνέων τε καὶ θηρίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 40 6:1)

Related

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

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