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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)
  • τῆσ δ’ ὅλησ Ἀραβίασ τὴν μὲν ἐπὶ μεσημβρίαν νεύουσαν εὐδαίμονα προσαγορεύουσι, τὴν δ’ ἐνδοτέρω κειμένην νέμεται πλῆθοσ Ἀράβων νομάδων καὶ σκηνίτην βίον ᾑρημένων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 54 1:1)
  • τὴν μὲν οὖν Ἰνδικὴν οὐκ οἶδεν Ὅμηροσ εἰδὼσ δὲ ἐμέμνητο ἄν, τὴν δ’ Ἀραβίαν, ἣν εὐδαίμονα προσαγορεύουσιν οἱ νῦν, τότε δ’ οὐκ ἦν πλουσία, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὴ ἄποροσ καὶ ἡ πολλὴ αὐτῆσ σκηνιτῶν ἀνδρῶν· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 64:7)
  • καὶ τἆλλα δὲ τὰ πολλὰ σκηνιτῶν καὶ νομάδων ἐστὶ πόρρω σφόδρα ὄντων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 4 4:25)
  • ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ τὴν γῆν ἐλευθεροῦν θηρίων καὶ τῶν σπερμολόγων ὀρνέων μετροῦνται παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ σῖτον, πλάνητα καὶ σκηνίτην νεμόμενοι βίον. (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 82:2)

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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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