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σκυτοτομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτοτομία

Structure: σκυτοτομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from sku_toto/mos

Sense

  1. shoemaking

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

  • εἶναι, αὐτόσ τε οὐκ ἐπαί̈ων περὶ σκυτοτομίασ καὶ τοῖσ μὴ ἐπαί̈ουσιν, ἐκ τῶν χρωμάτων δὲ καὶ σχημάτων θεωροῦσιν; (Plato, Republic, book 10 135:1)
  • οὕτω δὴ οἶμαι καὶ τὸν ποιητικὸν φήσομεν χρώματα ἄττα ἑκάστων τῶν τεχνῶν τοῖσ ὀνόμασι καὶ ῥήμασιν ἐπιχρωματίζειν αὐτὸν οὐκ ἐπαί̈οντα ἀλλ’ ἢ μιμεῖσθαι, ὥστε ἑτέροισ τοιούτοισ ἐκ τῶν λόγων θεωροῦσι δοκεῖν, ἐάντε περὶ σκυτοτομίασ τισ λέγῃ ἐν μέτρῳ καὶ ῥυθμῷ καὶ ἁρμονίᾳ, πάνυ εὖ δοκεῖν λέγεσθαι, ἐάντε περὶ στρατηγίασ ἐάντε περὶ ἄλλου ὁτουοῦν· (Plato, Republic, book 10 137:1)

Synonyms

  1. shoemaking

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

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