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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

  • 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)
  • περιέχεται δ’ ἡ χώρα τῶν Βαβυλωνίων ἀπὸ μὲν τῆσ ἠοῦσ ὑπό τε Σουσίων καὶ Ἐλυμαίων καὶ Παραιτακηνῶν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ μεσημβρίασ ὑπὸ τοῦ Περσικοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῶν Χαλδαίων μέχρι Ἀράβων τῶν Μεσηνῶν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ ἑσπέρασ ὑπό τε Ἀράβων τῶν σκηνιτῶν μέχρι τῆσ Ἀδιαβηνῆσ καὶ τῆσ Γορδυαίασ, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ἄρκτων ὑπό τε Ἀρμενίων καὶ Μήδων μέχρι τοῦ Ζάγρου καὶ τῶν περὶ αὐτὸ ἐθνῶν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 16:1)
  • διὰ δὲ τῶν Σκηνιτῶν, ὑπὸ τῶν Μαλίων νυνὶ λεγομένων, καὶ τῆσ ἐκείνων ἐρημίασ ἡ ὁδὸσ τοῖσ ἐκ τῆσ Συρίασ εἰσ Σελεύκειαν καὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἐμπορευομένοισ ἐστίν. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 53:2)
  • ὅμοροσ δ’ ἐστὶ τῇ Ἀπαμέων πρὸσ ἑώ μὲν ἡ τῶν φυλάρχων Ἀράβων καλουμένη Παραποταμία καὶ ἡ Χαλκιδικὴ ἀπὸ τοῦ Μασσύου καθήκουσα καὶ πᾶσα ἡ πρὸσ νότον τοῖσ Ἀπαμεῦσιν, ἀνδρῶν σκηνιτῶν τὸ πλέον· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 2 22:1)

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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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