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σκίρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκίρον σκίρου

Structure: σκιρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the white sunshade

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

  • 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)

Derived

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

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