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σκυτεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτεύς σκυτέως

Structure: σκυτευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sku=tos

Sense

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκυτεύς σκυτή σκυτής
Genitive σκυτέως σκυτέοιν σκυτέων
Dative σκυτεί σκυτέοιν σκυτεῦσιν*
Accusative σκυτέα σκυτή σκυτέᾱς
Vocative σκυτεύ σκυτή σκυτής

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

  • ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐγὼ οἶδα, πᾶν τοὐναντίον ἀφ’ ἑκατέρου αὐτῶν ἀποβαίνει, οὐ μοῦνον ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν σκύτει καὶ ἐν ξύλῳ καὶ ἐν ἄλλοισ πολλοῖσ, ἅ ἐστιν ἀνθρώπου ἀναισθητότερα. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xv.9)
  • "Λούπερκοι δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ τοῖσ Λουπερκαλίοισ γυμνοὶ διαθέοντεσ ἐν περιζώμασι καὶ καθικνούμενοι σκύτει τῶν ἀπαντώντων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 682)
  • "διὰ τί κύνα θύουσιν οἱ Λούπερκοι Λούπερκοι δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ τοῖσ Λουπερκαλίοισ γυμνοὶ διαθέοντεσ ἐν περιζώμασι καὶ καθικνούμενοι σκύτει τῶν ἀπαντώντων ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 681)
  • οὐχὶ δὲ τὴν αὑτοῦ ἀξίαν αὐτῷ ἀποδίδωσ, ὡσ σκυτεῖ περὶ τὸν πόδα, ὡσ τέκτονι περὶ τὴν οἰκίαν, οὕτωσ καὶ τῷ ἰατρῷ περὶ τὸ σωμάτιον, τὸ οὐκ ἐμόν, τὸ φύσει νεκρόν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 15:4)
  • 3νῦν ἐμοὶ ὕλη ἐστὶν ἡ ἐμὴ διάνοια, ὡσ τῷ τέκτονι τὰ ξύλα, ὡσ τῷ σκυτεῖ τὰ δέρματα· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 20:1)

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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