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Ὀρτυγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ὀρτυγία

Structure: Ὀρτυγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o)/rtuc

Sense

  1. quail-island

Declension

First declension

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

  • εἰπὸν δὲ μεμνᾶσθαι Συρακοσσᾶν τε καὶ Ὀρτυγίασ· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 29:1)
  • ἐρατοσθένησ δὲ Ἡσίοδον μὲν εἰκάζει πεπυσμένον περὶ τῆσ Ὀδυσσέωσ πλάνησ ὅτι κατὰ Σικελίαν καὶ Ἰταλίαν γεγένηται, πιστεύσαντα τῇ δόξῃ μὴ μόνον τῶν ὑφ’ Ὁμήρου λεγομένων μεμνῆσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ Αἴτνησ καὶ Ὀρτυγίασ τοῦ πρὸσ Συρακούσαισ νησίου καὶ Τυρρηνῶν· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. quail-island

Related

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

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