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ἐρυθρόπους

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρυθρόπους

Structure: ἐρυθροποδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. red-footed, the redshank

Examples

  • ἔτι ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ φησιν Ἀριστοτέλησ ὅτι περιστερὰ ἕτερον, πελειὰσ δ’ ἔλαττον, καὶ ὅτι ἡ πελειὰσ τιθασὸν γίνεται, περιστερά δὲ καὶ μέλαν καὶ μικρὸν καὶ ἐρυθρόπουν καὶ τραχύπουν διὸ οὐδεὶσ τρέφει, ἴδιον δὲ λέγει τῆσ περιστερᾶσ τὸ κυνεῖν αὐτὰσ ὅταν μέλλωσιν ἀναβαίνειν ἢ οὐκ ἀνέχεσθαι τὰσ θηλείασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 2:1)

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

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