σκότος

σκότος, ὁ,
more rarely σκότος, εος, τό (see. entry near the end), darkness, gloom, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to φάος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἡμέρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2 in [Refs 8th c.BC+] always of the darkness of death, mostly in phrase τὸν δὲ σ. ὄσσε κάλυψεν [Refs]; so in Trag. and Comedy texts, σκότῳ θανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤδη με περιβάλλει σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκότον εἶναι τεθνηκότος (i.e. Αἰσχύλου) [Refs 5th c.BC+]
3 of the nether world, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; παῖδες ἀρχαίου Σκότου[Refs 5th c.BC+]
4 the darkness of the womb, φυγόντα μητρόθεν σκότον [Refs 4th c.BC+]
5 of blindness, σκότου νέφος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; βλέποντα νῦν μὲν ὄρθ᾽, ἔπειτα δὲ σκότον, i.e. μηδέν,[Refs 5th c.BC+]
5.b dizziness, vertigo, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare σκοτόδινος, -δινιάω.
6 metaphorically, σκότῳ κρύπτειν hide in darkness, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σκότον ἔχειν to be in darkness, obscurity, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπορία καὶ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+] it is dark and uncertain, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
7 of a person, Μητρότιμος ὁ σ., like{ὁ σκοτεινός}, the mystery-man, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; also, darkness, i.e. ignorance, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; deceit, σ. καὶ ἀπάτη [Refs 5th c.BC+]
8 plural, σκότη shadows in a picture, [Refs 2nd c.AD+] regarded the masculine as the Attic dialect form: the neuter never occurs in [Refs 5th c.BC+], and is nowhere required by the metre in Trag., though it sometimes occurs in codices, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; it is found, however, without variant, in [Refs 5th c.BC+] and Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; the word is always neuter in LXX and “NT.”
σκοτί-α, ἡ,
(σκότος) darkness, gloom, [NT+3rd c.BC+]
II in Architecture, scotia, cavetto, a sunken moulding, so called from the dark shadow it casts, [Refs 1st c.BC+]
III Σκοτιά, epithet of Aphrodite in Egypt, [Refs]