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σκιατραφία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκιατραφία

Structure: σκιατραφι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a being brought up in the shade, a sedentary, effeminate life

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

  • ἀφελὼν δὲ θρύψιν καὶ σκιατραφίαν καὶ θηλύτητα πᾶσαν οὐδὲν ἧττον εἴθισε τῶν κόρων τὰσ κόρασ γυμνάσ τε πομπεύειν καὶ πρὸσ ἱεροῖσ τισιν ὀρχεῖσθαι καὶ ἄδειν τῶν νέων παρόντων καὶ θεωμένων. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 14 2:2)

Related

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

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