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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

  • ἐκεῖνοσ μὲν οὖν ὑπὸ μεγαλοφροσύνησ οὐ προσεποιεῖτο ἀκηκοέναι τοῦ σκώμματοσ· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 10:5)
  • "ὦ Τυχιάδη, μή σοι μεταμελήσῃ τοῦ σκώμματοσ ὕστερον. (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 18:1)
  • σκώμματοσ μέτρον ἔστω τὸ ἄλυπον ἐπὶ πᾶσιν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:7)
  • οἶδα γὰρ ὡσ οὐκ ἄν τι ὑπὸ σκώμματοσ χεῖρον γένοιτο, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον ὅπερ ἂν ᾖ καλόν, ὥσπερ τὸ χρυσίον ἀποσμώμενον τοῖσ κόμμασι, λαμπρότερον ἀποστίλβει καὶ φανερώτερον γίγνεται. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 14:10)
  • γενομένου δὲ παρὰ δόξαν αὐτοῖσ τοῦ σκώμματοσ ἐμπίπτει γέλωσ πᾶσι, καὶ κατέβαινον ἀπὸ τοῦ λόφου τοῖσ ἀπαντῶσιν ἀεὶ τὸ πεπαιγμένον ἀπαγγέλλοντεσ, ὥστε διὰ πολλῶν πολὺν εἶναι τὸν γέλωτα καὶ μηδ’ ἀναλαβεῖν ἑαυτοὺσ δύνασθαι τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ἀννίβαν. (Plutarch, Fabius Maximus, chapter 15 3:1)

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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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