σκηνογραφία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From σκηνογράφος (skēnográphos, “scene painter”) +‎ -ία (-ía).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skɛː.no.ɡra.pʰí.aː/ → /sci.no.ɣraˈɸi.a/ → /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skɛː.no.ɡra.pʰí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ske̝.no.ɡraˈpʰi.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈɸi.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sci.no.ɣraˈfi.a/

Noun

σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ • (skēnographíā) f (genitive σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. scene painting
2. (figuratively) illusion

Inflection

First declension of ἡ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ; τῆς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ hē skēnographíā	τὼ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ skēnographíā	αἱ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αι hai skēnographíai
Genitive	τῆς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tês skēnographíās	τοῖν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn skēnographíain	τῶν σκηνογρᾰφῐῶν tôn skēnographiôn
Dative	τῇ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾳ têi skēnographíāi	τοῖν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αιν toîn skēnographíain	ταῖς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αις taîs skēnographíais
Accusative	τὴν σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱν tḕn skēnographíān	τὼ σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ tṑ skēnographíā	τᾱ̀ς σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱς tā̀s skēnographíās
Vocative	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ skēnographíā	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́ᾱ skēnographíā	σκηνογρᾰφῐ́αι skēnographíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: scēnographia

Further reading

• “σκηνογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκηνογραφία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• σκηνογραφία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette