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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

  • ἔνθ’ ὅ γε καὶ θεὸσ ὢν ψαφαρότριχα μῆλ’ ἐνόμευεν ἀνδρὶ πάρα θνητῷ θάλε γὰρ πόθοσ ὑγρὸσ ἐπελθὼν νύμφῃ ἐυπλοκάμῳ Δρύοποσ φιλότητι μιγῆναι· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 3:3)
  • τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ Ἀπόλλωνόσ ἐστιν αὐτοῖσ ναόσ, τοῦτο δὲ Δρύοποσ ἱερὸν καὶ ἄγαλμα ἀρχαῖον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 19:4)
  • Δρυόπων δ’ οἰκητήριόν φασι καὶ τὴν Ἀσίνην, εἴτ’ ἐκ τῶν περὶ Σπερχειὸν τόπων ὄντασ αὐτοὺσ Δρύοποσ τοῦ Ἀρκάδοσ κατοικίσαντοσ ἐνταῦθα, ὡσ Ἀριστοτέλησ φησίν, εἴθ’ Ἡρακλέουσ ἐκ τῆσ περὶ τὸν Παρνασσὸν Δωρίδοσ ἐξελάσαντοσ αὐτούσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 21:1)

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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