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σκυτάλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτάλη

Structure: σκυταλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a staff, cudgel, club
  2. a staff or baton, a Spartan dispatch, a message

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

  • ταῦτα ἔτι λεγούσησ αὐτῆσ οὐ περιμείνασ ἐγὼ τὸ τέλοσ τῶν λόγων ἀναστὰσ ἀπεφηνάμην, καὶ τὴν ἄμορφον ἐκείνην καὶ ἐργατικὴν ἀπολιπὼν μετέβαινον πρὸσ τὴν Παιδείαν μάλα γεγηθώσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἐπεί μοι καὶ εἰσ νοῦν ἦλθεν ἡ σκυτάλη καὶ ὅτι πληγὰσ εὐθὺσ οὐκ ὀλίγασ ἀρχομένῳ μοι χθὲσ ἐνετρίψατο. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 10:1)
  • εἴπερ γε χαὔτη ’στὶ σκυτάλη Λακωνική. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene, iambics16)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἡ σκυτάλη τοιοῦτον. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 5:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ ποιήσαντεσ ἃ βούλονται καταγράφουσιν εἰσ τὸ βιβλίον, ὥσπερ ἐστὶ τῇ σκυτάλῃ περικείμενον· (Plutarch, , chapter 19 6:2)
  • καλεῖται δὲ ὁμωνύμωσ τῷ ξύλῳ σκυτάλη τὸ βιβλίον, ὡσ τῷ μετροῦντι τὸ μετρούμενον. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. a staff

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

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