σκιαμαχία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- σκῐομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (skiomakhíā) – later
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.146
Etymology
σκῐᾱ́ (skiā́, “shadow”) + μᾰ́χη (mákhē, “battle, combat”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā)
Pronunciation
- (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/
Noun
σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ • (skiāmakhíā) f (genitive σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- a fighting against a shadow: esp. a form of exercise with hands and feet
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.153
- (figuratively) fighting with a shadow, mock fight, beating the air
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Fam. 11.14.1
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.514d
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 663.16
Declension
First declension of ἡ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
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
- → 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