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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

  • "τὸ γὰρ ἀναγκαῖον οὐκ ἀγαθόν ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ ἐπέκεινα τῆσ φυγῆσ τῶν κακῶν κεῖται τὸ ἐφετὸν καὶ τὸ αἱρετὸν καὶ νὴ Δία τὸ ἡδὺ καὶ οἰκεῖον, ὡσ Πλάτων ἔλεγε, καὶ ἀπηγόρευε τὰσ λυπῶν καὶ πόνων ἀπαλλαγὰσ ἡδονὰσ μὴ νομίζειν, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂́ν τινα σκιαγραφίαν ἢ μῖξιν οἰκείου καὶ ἀλλοτρίου, καθάπερ λευκοῦ καὶ μέλανοσ ἀπὸ τοῦ κάτω πρὸσ τὸ μέσον ἀναφερομένων, ἀπειρίᾳ δὲ τοῦ κάτω καὶ ἄνω καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ τὸ μέσον ἄκρον ἡγουμένων εἶναι καὶ πέρασ· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 81)
  • πρόθυρα μὲν καὶ σχῆμα κύκλῳ περὶ ἐμαυτὸν σκιαγραφίαν ἀρετῆσ περιγραπτέον, τὴν δὲ τοῦ σοφωτάτου Ἀρχιλόχου ἀλώπεκα ἑλκτέον ἐξόπισθεν κερδαλέαν καὶ ποικίλην. (Plato, Republic, book 2 78:2)

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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