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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

  • ἰδοὺ εἶ καλόσ, ὁ ἀδελφιδόσ μου, καί γε ὡραῖοσ. πρὸσ κλίνῃ ἡμῶν σύσκιοσ, (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 1:16)
  • καὶ ἐπί τε τοῦ αἰγιαλοῦ δένδρεα ἦν πολλὰ καὶ δασέα, καὶ ἡ νῆσοσ ὕλῃ παντοίῃ σύσκιοσ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 22 7:3)
  • "πῶμα γὰρ ἔπεστι καὶ κύκλῳ περιπέφυκεν ὕλη σύσκιοσ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2:6)
  • "πῶμα γὰρ ἔπεστι καὶ κύκλῳ περιπέφυκεν ὕλη σύσκιοσ. (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, chapter 24 7:8)
  • ἐχθρόν σοι τόδε δένδρον ἐπείγεο δ’, ἄμπελοσ ἔνθα ἀντέλλει γλαυκῶν σύσκιοσ ἐκ πετάλων κείνησ ταρσὸν ἔρεισον ἐπὶ κλάδον; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 872)

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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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