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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

  • γοναὶ μὲν γὰρ ἡμῶν ἀπόρρητοι λέγονται, τροφαὶ δὲ καὶ τιθηνήσεισ ἀτοπώτεραι νεογνῶν, οἷσ ἐρρίφημεν οἰωνοῖσ καὶ θηρίοισ, ὑπὸ τούτων τρεφόμενοι, μαστῷ λυκαίνησ καὶ δρυοκολάπτου ψωμίσμασιν, ἐν σκάφῃ τινὶ κείμενοι παρὰ τὸν μέγαν ποταμόν. (Plutarch, chapter 7 6:1)
  • ὡρ́μηνται δ’ ἐκ τῆσ Σαβίνησ οἱ Πικεντῖνοι, δρυοκολάπτου τὴν ὁδὸν ἡγησαμένου τοῖσ ἀρχηγέταισ, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ τοὔνομα· (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 4 4:2)

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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