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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

  • τῶν Ἄβαντεσ μὲν ἐξ Εὐβοίεσ εἰσὶ οὐκ ἐλαχίστη μοῖρα, τοῖσι Ιὠνίησ μέτα οὐδὲ τοῦ οὐνόματοσ οὐδέν, Μινύαι δὲ Ὀρχομένιοί σφι ἀναμεμίχαται καὶ Καδμεῖοι καὶ Δρύοπεσ καὶ Φωκέεσ ἀποδάσμιοι καὶ Μολοσσοὶ καὶ Ἀρκάδεσ Πελασγοὶ καὶ Δωριέεσ Ἐπιδαύριοι, ἄλλα τε ἔθνεα πολλὰ ἀναμεμίχαται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 146 2:3)
  • οἱ δὲ Ἑρμιονέεσ εἰσὶ Δρύοπεσ, ὑπὸ Ἡρακλέοσ τε καὶ Μηλιέων ἐκ τῆσ νῦν Δωρίδοσ καλεομένησ χώρησ ἐξαναστάντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 43 2:4)
  • Στυρέεσ δὲ τὰσ αὐτὰσ παρείχοντο νέασ τάσ περ ἐπ’ Ἀρτεμισίῳ, Κύθνιοι δὲ μίαν καὶ πεντηκόντερον, ἐόντεσ συναμφότεροι οὗτοι Δρύοπεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 46 5:1)
  • τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ ἔθνεα τῶν ἑπτὰ τέσσερα ἐπήλυδα ἐστί, Δωριέεσ τε καὶ Αἰτωλοὶ καὶ Δρύοπεσ καὶ Λήμνιοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 73 3:1)
  • τούσ τε γὰρ περιοίκουσ ὑπηκόουσ ἤδη καὶ συνακολουθοῦντασ εἶχον Ἀσιναῖοί τε καὶ οἱ Δρύοπεσ γενεᾷ πρότερον ὑπὸ Ἀργείων ἐκ τῆσ σφετέρασ ἀνεστηκότεσ καὶ ἥκοντεσ ἐσ τὴν Λακεδαίμονα ἱκέται κατ’ ἀνάγκην συνεστρατεύοντο· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 5:2)

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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