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φιλορνιθία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλορνιθία

Structure: φιλορνιθι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fi/lornis

Sense

  1. fondness for birds

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλορνιθία φιλορνιθίᾱ φιλορνιθίαι
Genitive φιλορνιθίᾱς φιλορνιθίαιν φιλορνιθιῶν
Dative φιλορνιθίᾱͅ φιλορνιθίαιν φιλορνιθίαις
Accusative φιλορνιθίᾱν φιλορνιθίᾱ φιλορνιθίᾱς
Vocative φιλορνιθίᾱ φιλορνιθίᾱ φιλορνιθίαι

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

  • ᾖδον δ’ ὑπὸ φιλορνιθίασ πάντεσ μέλη, ὅπου χελιδὼν ἦν τισ ἐμπεποιημένη ἢ πηνέλοψ ἢ χήν τισ ἢ περιστερὰ ἢ πτέρυγεσ, ἢ πτεροῦ τι καὶ σμικρὸν προσῆν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 117)

Synonyms

  1. fondness for birds

Similar forms

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

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