σκηνογραφία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκηνογράφος (skēnográphos, “scene painter”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skɛː.no.ɡra.pʰí.aː/ → /sci.no.ɣraˈɸi.a/ → /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skɛː.no.ɡra.pʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ske̝.no.ɡraˈpʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈɸi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ • (skēnogrăphĭ́ā) f (genitive σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. scene painting
2. (figuratively) illusion

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ hē skēnogrăphĭ́ā	τὼ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ skēnogrăphĭ́ā	αἱ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αι hai skēnogrăphĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tês skēnogrăphĭ́ās	τοῖν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn skēnogrăphĭ́ain	τῶν σκηνογρᾰφῐῶν tôn skēnogrăphĭôn
Dative	τῇ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾳ têi skēnogrăphĭ́āi	τοῖν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn skēnogrăphĭ́ain	ταῖς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αις taîs skēnogrăphĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱν tḕn skēnogrăphĭ́ān	τὼ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ skēnogrăphĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s skēnogrăphĭ́ās
Vocative	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ skēnogrăphĭ́ā	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ skēnogrăphĭ́ā	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αι skēnogrăphĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: scēnographia

Further reading

• “σκηνογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκηνογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σκηνογραφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette