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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

  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ διασύρων τὰ ἔργα ἐμφανῶσ ἔλεγε τραγῳδίαισ καὶ σκιαγραφίαισ πεπολεμηκέναι βασιλικαῖσ τὸν Λεύκολλον, αὑτῷ δὲ πρὸσ ἀληθινὴν καὶ σεσωφρονισμένην τὸν ἀγῶνα λείπεσθαι δύναμιν, εἰσ θυρεοὺσ καὶ ξίφη καὶ ἵππουσ Μιθριδάτου καταφεύγοντοσ, ἀμυνόμενοσ δὲ ὁ Λεύκολλοσ εἰδώλῳ καὶ σκιᾷ πολέμου τὸν Πομπήϊον ἔφη μαχούμενον βαδίζειν, εἰθισμένον ἀλλοτρίοισ νεκροῖσ, ὥσπερ ὄρνιν ἀργόν, ἐπικαταίρειν καὶ λείψανα πολέμων σπαράσσειν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 31 6:1)

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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