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δρύοψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρύοψ δρύοπος

Structure: δρυοπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. woodpecker

Declension

Third 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

  • ὡσ δὲ ἦλθεν εἰσ Τραχῖνα πρὸσ Κήυκα, ὑποδεχθεὶσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ Δρύοπασ κατεπολέμησεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 7:2)
  • ἔστι δ’ ἃ καὶ παντάπασιν ἐκκεχωρηκότα νῦν γένη τῶν Ἑλλήνων καταφεύγοντα εἰσ αὐτὴν ἀνέλαβεν, ὥσπερ Δρύοπασ καὶ Πελασγούσ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 21:1)
  • καὶ σιωπῶ Δρύοπασ καὶ Πελασγοὺσ καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, οὓσ ἐδέξατο μὲν κινδυνεύοντασ, οὕτω δ’ ἀντ’ ἀγαθοῦ του δαίμονοσ σφίσι κατέστη ὡσ ἐπιλελῆσθαι δι’ ὧν εὖ πεπόνθασι καὶ τῶν συμφορῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 56:4)

Synonyms

  1. woodpecker

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

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