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σύσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύσκιος σύσκιον

Structure: συσκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skia/

Sense

  1. closely shaded, thickly shaded, a closely-shaded place

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

  • ὑπέρκεινται δὲ τούτου νῆσοι τρεῖσ, ὧν δύο μὲν πλήρεισ εἰσὶν ἐλαιῶν καὶ σύσκιοι, μία δὲ λειπομένη τῷ πλήθει τῶν προειρημένων δένδρων, πλῆθοσ δ’ ἔχουσα τῶν ὀνομαζομένων μελεαγρίδων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 39 2:1)

Related

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

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