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ἄορνος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: aornos

Principal Part: ἄορνος

Structure: ἀορν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ὄρνις

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

  • Φιλοστέφανος δ ὁ Κυρηναῖος μὲν γένος, Καλλιμάχου δὲ γνώριμος, ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν παραδόξων ποταμῶν ἐν Αὄρνῳ φησὶ τῷ ποταμῷ διὰ Φενεοῦ ῥέοντι ἰχθῦς εἶναι φθεγγομένους ὁμοίως κίχλαις: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 32)
  • τὸ δὲ περὶ Σικελίαν καὶ Ἰταλίαν γεγονέναι τὴν πλάνην ὀρθῶς, ἐπεὶ τίς ἔπεισε ποιητὴς ἢ συγγραφεὺς Νεαπολίτας μὲν λέγειν μνῆμα Παρθενόπης τῆς Σειρῆνος, τοὺς δὲ ἐν Κύμῃ καὶ Δικαιαρχείᾳ καὶ Βεσβίῳ Πυριφλεγέθοντα καὶ Ἀχερουσίαν λίμνην καὶ νεκυομαντεῖον τὸ ἐν τῷ Αὄρνῳ καὶ Βάιον καὶ Μισηνὸν τῶν Ὀδυσσέως ἑταίρων τινάς· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 36:10)
  • ἐμύθευον δ οἱ πρὸ ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ Αὄρνῳ τὰ περὶ τὴν νέκυιαν τὴν Ὁμηρικήν: (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 10:5)

Synonyms

  1. without birds

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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