σκιαί (skiai)

σκιαί is an Ancient Greek form of σκιά, meaning “shadow”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.7.183: … εἶναί τινʼ ἐμοῦ βελτίονα, παρʼ αὐτῷ ἂν ἐγὼ ἐφιλοσόφουν. ὅθεν φασὶν ἐπʼ αὐτοῦ λεχθῆναι, οἶος πέπνυται, τοὶ δὲ σκιαὶ ἀΐσσουσι· καί, εἰ μὴ γὰρ ἦν Χρύσιππος, οὐκ ἂν ἦν στοά. Τέλος δʼ Ἀρκεσιλάῳ καὶ Λακύδῃ, καθά φησι Σωτίων ἐν τῷ …

Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.8.17: … ασείας καὶ δακτυλήθρας ἔχουσιν. ἔν γε μὴν τῷ θέρει οὐκ ἀρκοῦσιν αὐτοῖς οὔθʼ αἱ τῶν δένδρων οὔθʼ αἱ τῶν πετρῶν σκιαί, ἀλλʼ ἐν ταύταις ἑτέρας σκιὰς ἄνθρωποι μηχανώμενοι αὐτοῖς παρεστᾶσι.

All forms of σκιά (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.