σκῆψις

See also: Σκῆψις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to allege, pretend”) +‎ -σῐς (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skɛ̂ːp.sis/ → /ˈscip.sis/ → /ˈscip.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skɛ̂ːp.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈske̝p.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈscip.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈscip.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈscip.sis/

Noun

σκῆψῐς • (skêpsis) f (genitive σκήψεως); third declension

1. pretext, plea, excuse, pretence
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.72
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.30
   • 458 BCE, Euripides, Electra 29
   • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 122
2. plea in a lawcourt

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ σκῆψῐς; τῆς σκήψεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκῆψῐς hē skêpsis	τὼ σκήψει tṑ skḗpsei	αἱ σκήψεις hai skḗpseis
Genitive	τῆς σκήψεως tês skḗpseōs	τοῖν σκηψέοιν toîn skēpséoin	τῶν σκήψεων tôn skḗpseōn
Dative	τῇ σκήψει têi skḗpsei	τοῖν σκηψέοιν toîn skēpséoin	ταῖς σκήψεσῐ / σκήψεσῐν taîs skḗpsesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν σκῆψῐν tḕn skêpsin	τὼ σκήψει tṑ skḗpsei	τᾱ̀ς σκήψεις tā̀s skḗpseis
Vocative	σκῆψῐ skêpsi	σκήψει skḗpsei	σκήψεις skḗpseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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