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Νεφελοκοκκυγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νεφελοκοκκυγία

Structure: Νεφελοκοκκυγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ko/kkuc

Sense

  1. Cloud-cuckoo-town

Examples

  • βούλει Νεφελοκοκκυγίαν; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene20)
  • Νεφελοκοκκυγίαν τὰν εὐδαίμονα κλῇσον ὦ Μοῦσα τεαῖσ ἐν ὓμνων ἀοιδαῖσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)
  • τὴν μὲν οὖν νύκτα ἐκείνην αὐτοῦ ἐμείναμεν, τῇ δὲ ἐπιούσῃ ἄραντεσ ἐπλέομεν ἤδη πλησίον τῶν νεφῶν ἔνθα δὴ καὶ τὴν Νεφελοκοκκυγίαν πόλιν ἰδόντεσ ἐθαυμάσαμεν, οὐ μέντοι ἐπέβημεν αὐτῆσ· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 29:9)

Synonyms

  1. Cloud-cuckoo-town

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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