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σκιαμαχία
σκιαμαχία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκῐομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (skiomakhíā) later
Noun
σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ • (skiāmakhíā) f (genitive σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- a fighting against a shadow: esp. a form of exercise with hands and feet
- (figuratively) fighting with a shadow, mock fight, beating the air
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 663.16
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ | τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ | αἱ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς | τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν | τῶν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾳ | τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν | ταῖς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αις | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱν | τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ | τᾱ̀ς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ | σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ | σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Descendants
- → Late Latin: sciāmachia
- English: sciamachy
References
- σκῐᾱμᾰχία in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «σκιαμαχία» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette