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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Nominalization of σκαιός (skaiós, “western, left-hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skai̯.ǎi̯/ → /scɛˈɛ/ → /sceˈe/
Proper noun
Σκαιαί • (Skaiaí) f pl (genitive Σκαιῶν); first declension
- Scaean Gates (gateway in the walls of Troy)
Declension
Further reading
- “Σκαιαί”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Σκαιαί in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “Σκαιαί”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011