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ἄορνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄορνος

Structure: ἀορν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/rnis

Sense

  1. without birds
  2. lake Avernus

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ μὴν τὰ μὲν αὐτῆσ τῆσ στρατείασ χειμῶνεσ, αὐχμοί, βάθη ποταμῶν, ἀόρνα ὕψη, θηρίων ὑπερφυεῖσ ὄψεισ, ἄγριοι δίαιται, μεταβολαὶ δυναστῶν, παλιμπροδοσίαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 31)
  • καὶ μὴν τὰ μὲν αὐτῆσ τῆσ στρατείασ, χειμῶνεσ, αὐχμοί, βάθη ποταμῶν, ἀόρνα ὕψη, θηρίων ὑπερφυεῖσ ὄψεισ, ἄγριοι δίαιται, μεταβολαὶ δυναστῶν, παλιμπροδοσίαι τὰ δὲ πρὸ τῆσ στρατείασ, ἔτι τοῖσ Φιλιππικοῖσ πολέμοισ ἐπέσπαιρεν ἡ Ἑλλάσ, ἀπεσείοντο δ’ αἱ Θῆβαι τῶν ὅπλων τὴν Χαιρωνικὴν κόνιν ἐκ τοῦ πτώματοσ ἀνιστάμεναι, καὶ συνῆπτον αἱ Ἀθῆναι τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀρέγουσαι· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. without birds

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

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