joke
From LSJ
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Ar. and P. σκῶμμα, τό. γέλοιον, τό.
speak in joke: P. and V. παίζων εἰπεῖν.
verb intransitive
P. and V. σκώπτειν (Eur., Cyclops 675), Ar. and P. ἐπισκώπτειν, χαριεντίζεσθαι, P. προσπαίζειν.
