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ἀηδών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀηδών ἀηδόνος

Structure: ἀηδων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the songstress, the nightingale

Declension

Third 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

  • Ἀκρίδι τᾷ κατ’ ἄρουραν ἀηδόνι, καὶ δρυοκοίτᾳ τέττιγι ξυνὸν τύμβον ἔτευξε Μυρώ, παρθένιον στάξασα κόρα δάκρυ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1901)

Synonyms

  1. the songstress

Related

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

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