Greek

Proper noun

Σκοτία • ‎(Skotía) f

1. Alternative form of Σκωτία ‎(Skotía)

Declension

Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /skotía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /skotía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /skotía/

Noun

σκοτίᾱ • ‎(skotíā) f ‎(genitive σκοτίας); first declension

1. darkness, gloom
   • Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 4.1698
   • Gregory of Nazianzus, Palatine Anthology 8.187,190
2. (architecture) scotia, cavetto, so called from the dark shadow it casts
   • Vitruvius 3.3

Inflection

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• LSJ 8th edition

Greek

Noun

σκοτία • ‎(skotía) f

1. (architecture) scotia

Declension