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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

  • 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

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

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