Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σκυτοτομικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκυτοτομικός σκυτοτομική σκυτοτομικόν

Structure: σκυτοτομικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from sku_toto/mos

Sense

  1. of or for a shoemaker

Declension

First/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

  • εἶτ’ ἐθορύβησαν κἀνέκραγον ὡσ εὖ λέγοι, τὸ σκυτοτομικὸν πλῆθοσ, οἱ δ’ ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἀνεβορβόρυξαν. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 2:24)
  • τὸ δέ γε ἦν ἄρα, ὦ Γλαύκων ‐ δι’ ὃ καὶ ὠφελεῖ ‐ εἴδωλόν τι τῆσ δικαιοσύνησ, τὸ τὸν μὲν σκυτοτομικὸν φύσει ὀρθῶσ ἔχειν σκυτοτομεῖν καὶ ἄλλο μηδὲν πράττειν, τὸν δὲ τεκτονικὸν τεκταίνεσθαι, καὶ τἆλλα δὴ οὕτωσ. (Plato, Republic, book 4 558:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for a shoemaker

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

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