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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

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

  • μή νυν ἀφῆτέ γ’ αὐτόν, ὡσ ὄντ’ αὖ πολὺ κυνῶν ἁπάντων ἄνδρα μονοφαγίστατον, ὅστισ περιπλεύσασ τὴν θυείαν ἐν κύκλῳ ἐκ τῶν πόλεων τὸ σκῖρον ἐξεδήδοκεν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:19)
  • μετὰ δὲ τοῦ Ἀνθεμοκρίτου τὴν στήλην Μολοττοῦ τε τάφοσ ἐστὶν ἀξιωθέντοσ Ἀθηναίων καὶ τούτου στρατηγεῖν, ὅτε Πλουτάρχῳ βοηθοῦντεσ διέβησαν ἐσ Εὔβοιαν, καὶ χωρίον Σκῖρον ἐπὶ τοιῷδε καλούμενον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 7:1)

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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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