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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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐξάνοιγε μηχανὰσ τὰσ Σισύφου, ὡσ σκῆψιν ἁγὼν οὗτοσ οὐκ ἐσδέξεται. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 13)
  • ἐσ μὲν γὰρ ἄνδρα σκῆψιν εἶχ’ ὀλωλότα, παίδων δ’ ἔδεισε μὴ φθονηθείη φόνῳ. (Euripides, episode 2:2)
  • ἣ μὲν γὰρ ἁρπασθεῖσ’ ἑκοῦσ’ ἀπώλετο, σὺ δ’ ἄνδρ’ ἄριστον Ἑλλάδοσ διώλεσασ, σκῆψιν προτείνουσ’, ὡσ ὑπὲρ τέκνου πόσιν ἔκτεινασ· (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:5)
  • μόχθοσ γὰρ οὐδεὶσ τοῖσ νέοισ σκῆψιν φέρει. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 6:19)
  • στενομένα γὰρ ἂν πόλισ ἔχοι σκῆψιν ξενικὸν ἐσβολὰν . (Euripides, Ion, choral, epode2)

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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