σκιαμαχία

Ancient Greek

FWOTD – 13 July 2024

σκῐομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (skĭomăkhĭ́ā) — later
- 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 6.146

From σκῐᾱ́ (skĭā́, “shadow”) +‎ μᾰ́χη (mắkhē, “battle, combat”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)

σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ • (skĭāmăkhĭ́ā) f (genitive σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς); first declension

a fighting against a shadow: esp. a form of exercise with hands and feet
- 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 1.153
(figurative) fighting with a shadow, mock fight, beating the air
- 106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Fam. 11.14.1
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.514d
- 1115 – 1195, Eustathius of Thessalonica, Collected Works 663.16

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ hē skĭāmăkhĭ́ā	τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ tṑ skĭāmăkhĭ́ā	αἱ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι hai skĭāmăkhĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς tês skĭāmăkhĭ́ās	τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν toîn skĭāmăkhĭ́ain	τῶν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐῶν tôn skĭāmăkhĭôn
Dative	τῇ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾳ têi skĭāmăkhĭ́āi	τοῖν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αιν toîn skĭāmăkhĭ́ain	ταῖς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αις taîs skĭāmăkhĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱν tḕn skĭāmăkhĭ́ān	τὼ σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ tṑ skĭāmăkhĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱς tā̀s skĭāmăkhĭ́ās
Vocative	σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ skĭāmăkhĭ́ā	σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́ᾱ skĭāmăkhĭ́ā	σκῐᾱμᾰχῐ́αι skĭāmăkhĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.