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σκῆψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκῆψις σκῆψεως

Structure: σκηψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: skh/ptw

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 σκήψεσιν*
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

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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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