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σκοτίᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκοτίᾱ σκοτίας

Structure: σκοτι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: sko/tos

Sense

  1. darkness, gloom
  2. (architecture) scotia, cavetto, so called from the dark shadow it casts

Declension

First 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

  • πάρα γὰρ λεύσσειν πτώματα νεκρῶν τρισσῶν ἤδη τάδε πρὸσ μελάθροισ κοινῷ θανάτῳ σκοτίαν αἰῶνα λαχόντων. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, anapests2)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀμφιβάλλει ταχύπουν κέλευθον ἑρ́πων σκοτίαν, ἄφνω δ’ ἄφαντοσ προσέβα μακρὰσ ἀφαιρούμενοσ ἐλπίδασ θνατῶν πολύμοχθοσ Αἵδασ καὶ τὰ τούτων ἐφεξῆσ προσσυνεῖρε, πάντα πρὸσ τὴν ὁμοίαν φερόμενα διάνοιαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 92 3:4)

Synonyms

  1. darkness

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