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σκιαγραφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκιαγραφία

Structure: σκιαγραφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: skiagra/fos

Sense

  1. a sketch or rough painting, 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

  • χωριζόμενα δὲ φρονήσεωσ καὶ ἀλλαττόμενα ἀντὶ ἀλλήλων μὴ σκιαγραφία τισ ᾖ ἡ τοιαύτη ἀρετὴ καὶ τῷ ὄντι ἀνδραποδώδησ τε καὶ οὐδὲν ὑγιὲσ οὐδ’ ἀληθὲσ ἔχῃ, τὸ δ’ ἀληθὲσ τῷ ὄντι ᾖ κάθαρσίσ τισ τῶν τοιούτων πάντων καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἀνδρεία, καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ φρόνησισ μὴ καθαρμόσ τισ ᾖ. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 172:1)
  • οὕτω γὰρ οὐκ ὄντα ταῦτα, τὰ δὲ ὅσα ἔστι μὲν ὄντα, πέφυκε μέντοι φαίνεσθαι ἢ μὴ οἱᾶ́ ἐστιν ἢ ἃ μὴ ἔστιν οἱο͂ν ἡ σκιαγραφία καὶ τὰ ἐνύπνια· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 258:2)
  • ᾧ δὴ ἡμῶν τῷ παθήματι τῆσ φύσεωσ ἡ σκιαγραφία ἐπιθεμένη γοητείασ οὐδὲν ἀπολείπει, καὶ ἡ θαυματοποιία καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι πολλαὶ τοιαῦται μηχαναί. (Plato, Republic, book 10 188:1)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν δημηγορικὴ λέξισ καὶ παντελῶσ ἐοίκεν τῇ σκιαγραφίᾳ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 5:1)
  • ἴδωμεν ῥᾳστώνησ τε πέρι καὶ χαλεπότητοσ πρὸσ τὸ τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν δοκεῖν ἀποχρώντωσ μεμιμῆσθαι, καὶ κατοψόμεθα ὅτι γῆν μὲν καὶ ὄρη καὶ ποταμοὺσ καὶ ὕλην οὐρανόν τε σύμπαντα καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν ὄντα καὶ ἰόντα πρῶτον μὲν ἀγαπῶμεν ἄν τίσ τι καὶ βραχὺ πρὸσ ὁμοιότητα αὐτῶν ἀπομιμεῖσθαι δυνατὸσ ᾖ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, ἅτε οὐδὲν εἰδότεσ ἀκριβὲσ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων, οὔτε ἐξετάζομεν οὔτε ἐλέγχομεν τὰ γεγραμμένα, σκιαγραφίᾳ δὲ ἀσαφεῖ καὶ ἀπατηλῷ χρώμεθα περὶ αὐτά· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sketch or rough painting

Related

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

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