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σκολιότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκολιότης σκολιότητος

Structure: σκολιοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from skolio/s

Sense

  1. crookedness, the windings

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 ἐφείσατο ὁ ὀφθαλμόσ μου ἐπὶ σοὶ τοῦ ποιῆσαί σοι ἓν ἐκ πάντων τούτων, τοῦ παθεῖν τι ἐπὶ σοί, καὶ ἀπερρίφησ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον τοῦ πεδίου τῇ σκολιότητι τῆσ ψυχῆσ σου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ, ᾗ ἐτέχθησ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 16:5)
  • οἱ δὲ Πάρθοι διαστάντεσ ἐκ μήκουσ ἤρξαντο τοξεύειν ἅμα πανταχόθεν, οὐ τὴν ἀκριβῆ τοξείαν ἡ γὰρ συνέχεια καὶ πυκνότησ τῶν Ῥωμαίων οὐδὲ τῷ βουλομένῳ διαμαρτάνειν ἀνδρὸσ παρεῖχεν, εὐτόνουσ δὲ τὰσ πληγὰσ καὶ βιαίουσ διδόντεσ ἀπὸ τόξων κραταιῶν καὶ μεγάλων καὶ τῇ σκολιότητι τῆσ καμπῆσ ἠναγκασμένον τὸ βέλοσ ἀποστελλόντων. (Plutarch, chapter 24 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. crookedness

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

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