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σκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκοπή

Structure: σκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = skopia/ I, in pl., Aesch., Xen.

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκοπή σκοπᾱ́ σκοπαί
Genitive σκοπῆς σκοπαῖν σκοπῶν
Dative σκοπῇ σκοπαῖν σκοπαῖς
Accusative σκοπήν σκοπᾱ́ σκοπᾱ́ς
Vocative σκοπή σκοπᾱ́ σκοπαί

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

  • πατρὸσ σκοπαὶ δέ μ’ εἷλον· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἠριστήκεσαν, καταμαθὼν ἔνθα αἱ σκοπαὶ ἦσαν αἱ τῶν Χαλδαίων ἐρυμνόν τε ὂν καὶ ἔνυδρον, εὐθὺσ ἐτείχιζε φρούριον· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 14:2)
  • διώξῃσ δὲ μηδαμῇ εἰσ ἀφανέσ, ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ αἱ σκοπαί σοι διαμένωσιν ἐπιμεληθεὶσ πάριθι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 16:4)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ παράπλῳ τούτῳ καὶ σκοπαί τινεσ λέγονται Κλαζομενίων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 5:11)

Similar forms

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

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