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σκίρτησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration: skirtēsis

Principal Part: σκίρτησις σκίρτησεως

Structure: σκιρτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from σκιρτάω

Sense

  1. a bounding, leaping

Declension

Third 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

  • οὐδὲ γὰρ αἱ δωρεαὶ κατεπράυνον αὐτόν, ἀλλ ὥσπερ τὸν Ἆπιν ἐν ἀφθόνοις διαιτώμενον καὶ τρυφᾶν δοκοῦντα τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν βίου καὶ δρόμων ἀφέτων καὶ σκιρτήσεων ἵμερος ἔχει, καὶ δῆλός ἐστι δυσανασχετῶν τὴν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶ τῶν ἱερέων διατριβήν, οὕτως ἐκεῖνον οὐδὲν ἤρεσκε τῶν μαλθακῶν, ἀλλὰ φθινύθεσκε φίλον κῆρ, ὥσπερ Ἀχιλλεύς, αὖθι μένων, ποθέεσκε δ ἀυτήν τε πτόλεμόν τε. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 34 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bounding

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

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