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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

  • μία μὲν οὖν αὕτη αἰτία, μία δὲ τὸ χρῆσθαι γλώτταισ, οἱο͂ν Λυκόφρων Ξέρξην "πέλωρον ἄνδρα" , καὶ Σκίρων "σίνισ ἀνήρ" , καὶ Ἀλκιδάμασ "ἄθυρμα τῇ ποιήσει" , καὶ "τὴν τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀτασθαλίαν" , καὶ "ἀκράτῳ τῆσ διανοίασ ὀργῇ τεθηγμένον" . (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 3 2:1)
  • τὰσ δὲ μετὰ ταύτην νομίζουσιν ἐναγεῖσ, ὅτι παροικῶν σφισιν ὁ Σκίρων, ὁπόσοισ τῶν ξένων ἐπετύγχανεν, ἠφίει σφᾶσ ἐσ τὴν θάλασσαν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 44 15:3)
  • τὴν δὲ ὀνομαζομένην ἀπὸ Σκίρωνοσ καὶ ἐσ τόδε Σκιρωνίδα <Σκίρων>, ἡνίκα Μεγαρεῦσιν ἐπολεμάρχει, πρῶτοσ ὡσ λέγουσιν ἐποίησεν ἀνδράσιν ὁδεύειν εὐζώνοισ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 44 11:8)

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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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