σκοτία
See also: Σκωτία and Σκοτία
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From σκότος (skótos, “darkness”) + -ία (-ía).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sko.tí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /skoˈti.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /skoˈti.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /skoˈti.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /skoˈti.a/
Noun
σκοτῐ́ᾱ • (skotíā) f (genitive σκοτῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- darkness, gloom
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1698
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Palatine Anthology 8.187,190
- (architecture) scotia, cavetto, so called from the dark shadow it casts
- Vitruvius 3.3
Inflection
First declension of ἡ σκοτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σκοτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ σκοτῐ́ᾱ hē skotíā | τὼ σκοτῐ́ᾱ tṑ skotíā | αἱ σκοτῐ́αι hai skotíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς σκοτῐ́ᾱς tês skotíās | τοῖν σκοτῐ́αιν toîn skotíain | τῶν σκοτῐῶν tôn skotiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ σκοτῐ́ᾳ têi skotíāi | τοῖν σκοτῐ́αιν toîn skotíain | ταῖς σκοτῐ́αις taîs skotíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν σκοτῐ́ᾱν tḕn skotíān | τὼ σκοτῐ́ᾱ tṑ skotíā | τᾱ̀ς σκοτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s skotíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | σκοτῐ́ᾱ skotíā | σκοτῐ́ᾱ skotíā | σκοτῐ́αι skotíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: scotia
- Catalan: escòcia
- English: scotia
- Italian: scozia
- Spanish: esgucio, escocia
- Greek: σκοτία (skotía)
Further reading
- “σκοτία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σκοτία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G4653 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σκοτία (skotía).
Noun
σκοτία • (skotía) f
- (architecture) scotia
Declension
declension of σκοτία
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | σκοτία • | σκοτίες • |
genitive | σκοτίας • | σκοτιών • |
accusative | σκοτία • | σκοτίες • |
vocative | σκοτία • | σκοτίες • |