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σκευήν (skeuen)

σκευήν is an Ancient Greek form of σκευή, meaning “equipment, dress”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.7.96: … πὸ τῶν γονέων αὐτῆς ἀποτρέψαι τὴν παῖδα, πάντʼ ἐποίει, καὶ τέλος μὴ πείθων, ἀναστὰς καὶ ἀποθέμενος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ σκευὴν ἀντικρὺ αὐτῆς ἔφη, ὁ μὲν νυμφίος οὗτος, ἡ δὲ κτῆσις αὕτη, πρὸς ταῦτα βουλεύου· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἔσεσθαι κοινωνόν, εἰ …

Euripides, Bacchae 34: σκευήν τʼ ἔχειν ἠνάγκασʼ ὀργίων ἐμῶν,

All forms of σκευή (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.