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φάσσα

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάσσα

Sense

  1. a wild pigeon, ringdove

Examples

  • "περιστερά, οἰνάσ, φάψ, φάσσα, τρυγών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:1)
  • "μείζων ἐστὶ τῆσ περιστερᾶσ, χρῶμα δ’ ἔχει οἰνωπόν, ἡ δὲ φὰψ μέσον περιστερᾶσ καὶ οἰνάδοσ, ἡ δὲ φάσσα ἀλέκτοροσ τὸ μέγεθοσ, χρῶμα δὲ σποδιόν, ἡ δὲ τρυγὼν πάντων ἐλάττων, χρῶμα δὲ τεφρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:5)
  • πολυχρονιωτέρα δὲ εἶναι λέγεται τούτων ἡ φάσσα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 1:8)
  • κρεῶν δὲ πονηρὰ μὲν τὰ παλαιὰ πάντα· νεοσφαγῆ δὲ ἀλέκτοροσ, πτηνῶν ἡ φάσσα, ἡ πελειὰσ, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ὁκόσα μὴ μάλιστα πίονα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 58)

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

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