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συσκηνία?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: syskēnia

Principal Part: συσκηνία

Structure: συσκηνι (Stem) + α (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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