Ancient Greek

Noun

σκιά • ‎(skiá) f ‎(genitive σκιᾶς); first declension

1. shadow
2. shade (shelter from the sun)
3. shade (spirit of someone dead)

Inflection

References

σκιά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• «σκιά» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G4639”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • apparition idem, page 34.
  • appearance idem, page 35.
  • form idem, page 338.
  • ghost idem, page 358.
  • jot idem, page 464.
  • phantom idem, page 610.
  • shade idem, page 760.
  • shadow idem, page 760.
  • skeleton idem, page 780.
  • spectre idem, page 800.
  • spirit idem, page 802.
  • umbrage idem, page 905.
  • vision idem, page 954.

Greek

Noun

σκιά • ‎(skiá) f ‎(plural σκιές)

1. shadow (usual and figurative English uses)
   1. dark area cast by light source

      θέατρο σκιών (shadow theatre)

   2. black area

      Ο ύποπτος χάθηκε μέσα στις σκιές της νύχτας. (The suspect disappeared into the shadows of the night.)

   3. follower, person following another, tail
   4. shadow effects (in typography, etc)

      σκιά ματιών (eye shadow)

   5. faded, weakened person

      σκιά του παλιού του εαυτού (shadow of his former self)

Declension

Synonyms

• ίσκιος m ‎(ískios)

Related terms

• σκιά ματιών f ‎(skiá matión, “eye shadow”)