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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

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Νεφελοκοκκυγία Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱ Νεφελοκοκκυγίαι
Genitive Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱς Νεφελοκοκκυγίαιν Νεφελοκοκκυγιῶν
Dative Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱͅ Νεφελοκοκκυγίαιν Νεφελοκοκκυγίαις
Accusative Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱν Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱ Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱς
Vocative Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱ Νεφελοκοκκυγίᾱ Νεφελοκοκκυγίαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μέλη πεποίηκ’ ἐσ τὰσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ τὰσ ὑμετέρασ κύκλιά τε πολλὰ καὶ καλὰ καὶ παρθένεια καὶ κατὰ τὰ Σιμωνίδου. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, lyric9)
  • ὡσ ἔστι Βάκιδοσ χρησμὸσ ἄντικρυσ λέγων ἐσ τὰσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics18)
  • ἐπίσκοποσ ἥκω δεῦρο τῷ κυάμῳ λαχὼν ἐσ τὰσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:3)
  • χρῆσθαι Νεφελοκοκκυγιᾶσ τοῖσδε τοῖσ μέτροισι καὶ σταθμοῖσι καὶ ψηφίσμασι καθάπερ Ὀλοφύξιοι. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:24)
  • τὸ μὲν πόλισμα τῆσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ ὁρᾶν τοδὶ πάρεστιν, οἷ πρεσβεύομεν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. Cloud-cuckoo-town

Related

Similar forms

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

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