The corpus record

σκιερός

skieros

shady, giving shade

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Where it lives

Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
Iphigenia in Tauris 1 · 1.21/10k
Wasps 1 · 1.03/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

σκιερός · skieros — LSJ

shady, giving shade, for the shade

shady, giving shade, ἐν νέμεϊ σκιερῷ Il. 11.480; ἄλσος ὕπο σκιερόν Od. 20.278; σκιαρόν τε φύτευμα Pi. O. 3.18; σκιεροῖσιν ὑφʼ ἕρνεσιν Ibyc. 1.5; σκιερᾷ δάφνᾳ E. IT 1246 (lyr.); ὦ σκιερὰ φυλλάς Id. Fr. 308 (anap.); ὄρος σκιερόν Ar. Av. 349 (lyr.); σκιεροῖσι πόθοισι longings for the shade, Opp. H. 4.438.

2 shady, in the shade

shady, in the shade, σκιεροὺς θώκους Hes. Op. 574; ἀπὸ σκιαρᾶν παγᾶν Pi. O. 3.14; ἀνάπαυλαι σκιαραί Pl. Lg. 625b.

3 dark-coloured

dark-coloured, Gal. 17(1).655; τὸ σ. μέλαν φαίνεται Arist. Col. 791a23; σκιερῆς ἄνθος ὀπώρης AP 6.154 (Leon. or Gaet.); φρίκῃ σ. θάλαττα Alciphr. 1.17; κεῖται ὑπὸ σκιερὰν Σύρου κόνιν IG 12(5).675.5 (Syros), etc.

4 faint

faint, ἀστήρ Vett.Val. 6.9.

In the wild

σκιερὸν · skieron Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 310)
σκιερά · skiera Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 519)
σκιερῷ · skierōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5578)
σκιερᾷ · skierai Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1 (DIORISIS sentence 771)
σκιεροὺς · skierous Works and Days 574–575
σκιερῷ · skierōi Iliad 11.480

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Where it came from

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