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σκῖρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκῖρον σκῖρου

Structure: σκιρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the hard rind, cheese-parings

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκῖρον σκίρω σκίρα
Genitive σκίρου σκίροιν σκίρων
Dative σκίρῳ σκίροιν σκίροις
Accusative σκῖρον σκίρω σκίρα
Vocative σκίρον σκίρω σκίρα

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

  • χρῆν γάρ, ἡμῶν εἰ τέκοι τισ ἄνδρα χρηστὸν τῇ πόλει, ταξίαρχον ἢ στρατηγόν, λαμβάνειν τιμήν τινα, προεδρίαν τ’ αὐτῇ δίδοσθαι Στηνίοισι καὶ Σκίροισ ἔν τε ταῖσ ἄλλαισ ἑορταῖσ αἷσιν ἡμεῖσ ἤγομεν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, epirrheme2)
  • ἀνθ’ ὧν συνείσει καὶ τὰ νῦν βουλεύματα ὅσα Σκίροισ ἔδοξε ταῖσ ἐμαῖσ φίλαισ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 1:9)
  • κάθησθε τοίνυν, ὡσ <ἂν> ἀνέρωμαι τάδε ὑμᾶσ, ἐπειδὴ συλλελεγμένασ ὁρῶ, ὅσα Σκίροισ ἔδοξεν εἰ δεδράκατε. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:10)
  • Ἀριστόδημοσ δ’ ἐν τρίτῳ περὶ Πινδάρου τοῖσ Σκίροισ φησὶν Ἀθήναζε ἀγῶνα ἐπιτελεῖσθαι τῶν ἐφήβων δρόμου· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 92 1:1)

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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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