σκοτία

See also: Σκωτία and Σκοτία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκότος (skótos, “darkness”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /sko.tí.aː/ → /skoˈti.a/ → /skoˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /sko.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /skoˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /skoˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skoˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skoˈti.a/

Noun

σκοτῐ́ᾱ • (skotíā) f (genitive σκοτῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. darkness, gloom
   • 300 BCE – 250 BCE, Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1698
   • 329 CE – 390 CE, Gregory of Nazianzus, Palatine Anthology 8.187,190
2. (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
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
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → English: scotia
• 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

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκοτία (skotía).

Noun

σκοτία • (skotía) f

1. (architecture) scotia

Declension

Declension of σκοτία

	singular	plural
nominative	σκοτία •	σκοτίες •
genitive	σκοτίας •	σκοτιών •
accusative	σκοτία •	σκοτίες •
vocative	σκοτία •	σκοτίες •