σκέλεα (skelea)

σκέλεα is an Ancient Greek form of σκέλος, meaning “leg”. It is the nominative plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of σκέλλω, “dry up, parch; to be parched, lean, dry”. It is the future middle indicative.

Found 49 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Arrian, Indica 14.6: ὃ δὲ ἐν μέρεϊ τῇ προβοσκίδι ἔκρουε τὸ κύμβαλον ἐν ῥυθμῷ πρὸς ἑκατέροιν τοῖν σκελοῖν, οἳ δὲ ὀρχεόμενοι ἐν κύκλῳ τε ἐχόρευον, καὶ ἐπαίροντές τε καὶ ἐπικάμπτοντες τὰ ἔμπροσθε σκέλεα ἐν τῷ μέρεϊ ἐν ῥυθμῷ καὶ οὗτοι ἔβαινον, κατʼ ὅτι ὁ κυμβαλίζων σφίσιν ὑπηγέετο.

Hippocrates, De officina medici 15: … ον τὸ ἐγγὺς τοῦ ἐγγωνίου πήχεος πρὸς βραχίονα· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ ἔθεος, ὅτι οὐκ ἄλλα σχήματα φέρειν δυνατώτερον, οἷον σκέλεᾳ ἔκτασιν· ἀπὸ τουτέων γὰρ ῤήϊστα πλεῖστον χρόνον ἔχοι ἂν μὴ μεταλλάσσοντα. ἐν δὲ τῇ μεταλλαγῇ ἐκ διατάσιος ὅμο …

All forms of σκέλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.