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σχαλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχαλίς σχαλίδος

Structure: σχαλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a forked stick used to prop

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

  • αἱ δὲ σχαλίδεσ αἱ μὲν τῶν ἀρκύων τὸ μῆκοσ δέκα παλαιστῶν, ἔστωσαν δὲ καὶ ἐλάττουσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 8:1)
  • τῷ δὲ πλήθει τῶν σχαλίδων οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἐστὶ χρῆσθαι πρὸσ τὰ δίκτυα πολλῷ καὶ ὀλίγῳ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 9:1)
  • πηγνύειν <δὲ> τὰσ σχαλίδασ ὑπτίασ, ὅπωσ ἂν ἐπαγόμεναι ἔχωσι τὸ σύντονον· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 9:1)
  • τὰ δὲ δίκτυα τεινέτω ἐν ἀπέδοισ, ἐμβαλλέτω δὲ τὰ ἐνόδια εἰσ τὰσ ὁδούσ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν τριμμῶν εἰσ τὰ συμφέροντα, καθάπτων τοὺσ περιδρόμουσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, τὰ ἀκρωλένια συνάγων, πηγνύων τὰσ σχαλίδασ μεταξὺ τῶν σαρδόνων, ἐπὶ ἄκρασ ἐπιβάλλων τοὺσ ἐπιδρόμουσ καὶ τὰ παράδρομα συμφράττων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 11:1)

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

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