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συσκηνία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συσκηνία

Structure: συσκηνι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dwelling in one tent, a messing together

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

  • Λυκοῦργοσ τοίνυν παραλαβὼν τοὺσ Σπαρτιάτασ ὥσπερ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ Ἕλληνασ οἴκοι σκηνοῦντασ, γνοὺσ ἐν τούτοισ πλεῖστα ῥᾳδιουργεῖσθαι, εἰσ τὸ φανερὸν ἐξήγαγε τὰ συσκήνια, οὕτωσ ἡγούμενοσ ἥκιστ’ ἂν παραβαίνεσθαι τὰ προσταττόμενα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 3:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ καὶ ὑπῃδεῖτο αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ συσκηνίᾳ, ὥσπερ εἰκὸσ πρεσβύτερον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 26:4)

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

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