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σκῶμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκῶμμα σκῶμματος

Structure: σκωμματ (Stem)

Etym.: skw/ptw

Sense

  1. a jest, joke, gibe, scoff, a joke, a pun

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

  • εἶτά μοι εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ φέρων συγκαθεῖρξεν τὸ σκῶμμα καὶ τὸν ἰάμβον καὶ κυνισμὸν καὶ τὸν Εὔπολιν καὶ τὸν Ἀριστοφάνη, δεινοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐπικερτομῆσαι τὰ σεμνὰ καὶ χλευάσαι τὰ ὀρθῶσ ἔχοντα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 33:9)
  • ἀνασχέσθαι καὶ ἐπαληθεύειν τὸ σκῶμμα καὶ τὴν Θαΐδα ἐᾶν τυραννεῖν τοῦ συμποσίου; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:9)
  • μηδεὶσ τὸν ἄργυρον ἢ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ἐξεταζέτω μηδὲ ἀναγραφέτω ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ μηδὲ γυμναζέσθω Κρονίοισ μηδὲ λόγουσ ἀσκεῖν ἢ ἐπιδείκνυσθαι, πλὴν εἴ τινεσ ἀστεῖοι καὶ φαιδροὶ σκῶμμα καὶ παιδιὰν ἐμφαίνοντεσ. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 1:5)
  • καίτοι ἐκεῖνοι μὲν καθ’ ἑνὸσ ἀνδρὸσ ἐτόλμων τοιαῦτα, καὶ ἐν Διονυσίοισ ἐφειμένον αὐτὸ ἔδρων, καὶ τὸ σκῶμμα ἐδόκει μέροσ τι τῆσ ἑορτῆσ, καὶ ὁ θεὸσ ἴσωσ ἔχαιρε ^ φιλόγελώσ τισ ὤν. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 25:5)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀρχὰσ ἔχει μεγάλασ ἀεὶ καὶ ἰσχυράσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ σκῶμμα καὶ παιδιὰ καὶ τὸ γελάσαι τινὰ καὶ τὸ διανεῦσαι καὶ πολλὰ τοιαῦτα πολλοὺσ εἰσ ὀργὴν καθίστησιν, ὥσπερ ἡ Ἑλένη τὴν ἀδελφιδῆν προσαγορεύσασα παρθένε μακρὸν δὴ μῆκοσ Ἠλέκτρα χρόνου παρώξυνεν εἰπεῖν ὀψέ γε φρονεῖσ εὖ, τότε λιποῦσ’ αἰσχρῶσ δόμουσ· (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 3 6:1)

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

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