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Νεφελοκοκκυγιεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Νεφελοκοκκυγιεύς Νεφελοκοκκυγιέως

Structure: Νεφελοκοκκυγιευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Cloud-cuckoo-man

Examples

  • ἐὰν δ’ ὁ Νεφελοκοκκυγιεὺσ τὸν Ἀθηναῖον ἀδικῇ ‐ τουτὶ τί ἔστιν αὖ κακὸν τὸ βιβλίον; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 3:21)

Synonyms

  1. a Cloud-cuckoo-man

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

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