σκιαμαχία
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- σκῐομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (skiomakhíā) — later
Etymology
[edit]From σκῐᾱ́ (skiā́, “shadow”) + μᾰ́χη (mákhē, “battle, combat”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ski.aː.ma.kʰí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ski.a.maˈkʰi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sci.a.maˈçi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sci.a.maˈçi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sci.a.maˈçi.a/
Nomen
[edit]σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ • (skiāmakhíā) f (genitive σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- a fighting against a shadow: esp. a form of exercise with hands and feet
- (figurative) fighting with a shadow, mock fight, beating the air
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 663.16
Declension
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ hē skiāmakhíā |
τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ tṑ skiāmakhíā |
αἱ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι hai skiāmakhíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς tês skiāmakhíās |
τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν toîn skiāmakhíain |
τῶν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐῶν tôn skiāmakhiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾳ têi skiāmakhíāi |
τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν toîn skiāmakhíain |
ταῖς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αις taîs skiāmakhíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱν tḕn skiāmakhíān |
τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ tṑ skiāmakhíā |
τᾱ̀ς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s skiāmakhíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ skiāmakhíā |
σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ skiāmakhíā |
σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι skiāmakhíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]- → Late Latin: sciāmachia
- English: sciamachy
References
[edit]- “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
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