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δρυοκολάπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρυοκολάπτης δρυοκολάπτου

Structure: δρυοκολαπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: kola/ptw

Sense

  1. the woodpecker

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

  • ἤ τοῦτο μὲν ἄπιστόν ἐστιν ὅλωσ καὶ τερατῶδεσ, ἅτεροσ δὲ τῶν μύθων πιθανώτεροσ, ὡσ ἄρα τοῖσ περὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Ῥῶμον ἐκτεθεῖσιν οὐ μόνον λύκαινα θηλὴν ἐπεῖχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δρυοκολάπτησ τισ ἐπιφοιτῶν ἐψώμιζεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 21 1:2)
  • ἐπιεικῶσ γὰρ ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἐν τοῖσ ὑπωρείοισ καὶ δρυμώδεσι τόποισ ὅπου φαίνεται δρυοκολάπτησ, ἐκεῖ καὶ λύκοσ, ὡσ Νιγίδιοσ ἱστορεῖ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 21 1:3)
  • πότερον ὅτι τὸν Πῖκον λέγουσιν ὑπὸ φαρμάκων τῆσ γυναικὸσ μεταβαλεῖν τὴν φύσιν καὶ γενόμενον δρυοκολάπτην ἀποφθέγγεσθαι λόγια καὶ χρησμῳδεῖν τοῖσ ἐρωτῶσιν ἢ τοῦτο μὲν ἄπιστόν ἐστιν ὅλωσ καὶ τερατῶδεσ, ἅτεροσ δὲ τῶν μύθων πιθανώτεροσ, ὡσ ἄρα τοῖσ περὶ Ῥωμύλον καὶ Ῥῶμον ἐκτεθεῖσιν οὐ μόνον λύκαινα θηλὴν ἐπεῖχεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δρυοκολάπτησ τισ ἐπιφοιτῶν ἐψώμιζεν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 21 1:1)
  • ἐπιεικῶσ γὰρ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοῖσ ὑπορείοισ καὶ δρυμώδεσι τόποισ ὅπου φαίνεται δρυοκολάπτησ, ἐκεῖ καὶ λύκοσ, ὡσ Νιγίδιοσ ἱστορεῖ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 21 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the woodpecker

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

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