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σκῆψις?

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: skēpsis

Principal Part: σκῆψις σκῆψεως

Structure: σκηψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: σκήπτω

Sense

  1. a pretext, plea, excuse, pretence, pretence of, a plea, excuse for

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκῆψις σκήψει σκήψεις
Genitive σκήψεως σκήψοιν σκήψεων
Dative σκήψει σκήψοιν σκήψεσι(ν)
Accusative σκῆψιν σκήψει σκήψεις
Vocative σκῆψι σκήψει σκήψεις

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

  • γενήσεται δέ μου πιστὸς ὁ λόγος ἔργα ὁμολογούμενα τῇ σκήψει παρεσχημένου, ὥσθ ἡμᾶς τῶν μὲν δεινῶν μηδετέροις κοινωνῆσαι, τῆς δ ἀμείνονος τύχης παρ ἀμφοτέρων μεταλαβεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 23 25:1)
  • Ἔνθαπερ καὶ δικαιότατον, ὦ Μειδία, ἐν τῇ πατρίδι τῇ σαυτοῦ Σκήψει καὶ ἐν τῇ πατρῴᾳ οἰκίᾳ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 32:8)
  • θεοῦ δ ἦν ἔργον ἄρα τοῦ σώζοντος τὸν Ιωἄννην ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν Ιἑροσολύμων ὄλεθρον τὸ μὴ μόνον πεισθῆναι Τίτον τῇ σκήψει τῆς ὑπερθέσεως, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς πόλεως πορρωτέρω στρατοπεδεύσασθαι πρὸς Κυδασοῖς: (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 119:1)
  • καίτοι εἰ μὲν συγγνώμην αἰτοῦντες ταύτῃ τῇ σκήψει καταχρῶνται, πῶς ἐπαινεῖσθαί γ ἀξιοῦσι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:2)
  • καὶ δύο γένη ταῦτα βασιλεῦσαι πολὺν χρόνον ἐν τῇ Σκήψει λέγεται: (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 87:4)

Synonyms

  1. a pretext

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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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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