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σκότος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκότος σκότου

Structure: σκοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. darkness, gloom
  2. blindness
  3. (figuratively) obscurity
  4. (of a person) the mystery, ignorance, deceit
  5. the dark part or shadow in a picture

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

  • "οὐδὲ σκότον φρίσσουσι τὸν συνεργάτην τέρεμνὰ τ’ οἴκων μή ποτε φθογγὴν ἀφῇ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 28:1)
  • ἐσόψῃ, χειρὸσ ἀναρπαστὰν σᾶσ ἄπο λαιμότομόν τ’ Αἴδᾳ γᾶσ ὑποπεμπομέναν σκότον, ἔνθα νεκρῶν μέτα τάλαινα κείσομαι. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe8)
  • ὁ κίνδυνοσ γὰρ οὐχὶ μικρόσ, ἢν ἁλῶμεν ἐνδυόμεναι κατὰ σκότον τόλμημα τηλικοῦτον. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Exodus3)
  • καὶ παρανόμωσ ὁδόσ ἐστιν, εἰσ ἔρεβόσ τι καὶ βάραθρον ὠθοῦσα τὰσ ψυχὰσ ἔνθεν τὸν ἄπειρον ἐρεύγονται σκότον βληχροὶ δνοφερᾶσ νυκτὸσ ποταμοί δεχόμενοι καὶ ἀποκρύπτοντεσ ἀγνοίᾳ καὶ λήθῃ τοὺσ κολαζομένουσ. (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 7 4:1)
  • ὡσ δὴ σκότον λαβόντεσ ἐκσωθεῖμεν ἄν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 5:10)

Synonyms

  1. darkness

  2. blindness

  3. obscurity

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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