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σκῦτος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκῦτος σκῦτεος

Structure: σκυτο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: like ku/tos

Sense

  1. a skin, hide, a dressed or tanned hide
  2. a leather thong, a whip, whips

Declension

Third 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

  • 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)
  • ὁ δὲ παρὰ ταῦτα ποιήσασ πληγὰσ μιᾷ λειπούσασ τεσσαράκοντα τῷ δημοσίῳ σκύτει λαβὼν τιμωρίαν ταύτην αἰσχίστην ἐλεύθεροσ ὑπομενέτω, ὅτι τῷ κέρδει δουλεύσασ ὕβρισε τὸ ἀξίωμα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 306:1)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. a skin

  2. a leather thong

Related

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

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