σκαιόν (skaion)

σκαιόν is an Ancient Greek form of σκαιός, meaning “left; awkward”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.744: πῆχυν ἔπι σκαιὸν ξυνοχὴ κεχάλαστο χιτῶνος

Euripides, Suppliants 547: σκαιόν γε τἀνάλωμα τῆς γλώσσης τόδε,

Strabo, Geography 13.1.21: … ον οἱ Κεβρήνιοι Θρᾷκες. πολλαὶ δʼ ὁμωνυμίαι Θρᾳξὶ καὶ Τρωσίν, οἷον Σκαιοὶ Θρᾷκές τινες καὶ Σκαιὸς ποταμὸς καὶ Σκαιὸν τεῖχος καὶ ἐν Τροίᾳ Σκαιαὶ πύλαι· Ξάνθιοι Θρᾷκες, Ξάνθος ποταμὸς ἐν Τροίᾳ· Ἄρισβος ὁ ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Ἕβρον, …

All forms of σκαιός (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.