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σκηνογραφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκηνογραφία

Structure: σκηνογραφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from skhnogra/fos

Sense

  1. scene-painting

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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ βουλόμενοσ αὔξειν τὴν ἱστορίαν πρῶτον μὲν τηλικαύτην εἶναί φησι διαφορὰν τῆσ ἱστορίασ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπιδεικτικοὺσ λόγουσ, ἡλίκην ἔχει τὰ κατ’ ἀλήθειαν ᾠκοδομημένα καὶ κατεσκευασμένα τῶν ἐν ταῖσ σκηνογραφίαισ φαινομένων τόπων καὶ διαθέσεων· (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 28a 1:2)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ οἰόμαι τηλικαύτην διαφορὰν ἔχειν τὰ κατ’ ἀλήθειαν οἰκοδομήματα τῶν ἐν ταῖσ σκηνογραφίαισ τόπων, οὐδὲ τὴν ἱστορίαν τῶν ἐπιδεικτικῶν λόγων, ἡλίκην ἐπὶ πασῶν τῶν συντάξεων τὴν ἐξ αὐτουργίασ καὶ τὴν ἐξ αὐτοπαθείασ ἀπόφασιν τῶν ἐξ ἀκοῆσ καὶ διηγήματοσ γραφομένων· (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 28a 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. scene-painting

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

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