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φίλορνις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φίλορνις φίλορνιθος

Structure: φιλορνιθ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of birds
  2. loved or haunted by birds

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

  • τοὺσ φιλοδόξουσ, καθάπερ τοὺσ φιλογύνασ γυναικομανεῖσ καὶ τοὺσ φιλόρνιθασ ὀρνιθομανεῖσ, τὸ αὐτὸ σημαινόντων τῶν ὀνομάτων τούτων, ὥστε καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ μὴ ἀλλοτρίωσ καλεῖσθαι τὸν τρόπον τοῦτον, καὶ γὰρ ὁ φίλοψοσ καὶ ὁ ὀψοφάγοσ οἱο͂ν ὀψομανήσ ἐστι καὶ ὁ φίλοινοσ οἰνομανὴσ καὶ ὡσαύτωσ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμοίων, οὐκ ἀλλοτρίωσ τῆσ μανίασ κειμένησ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ ὡσ ἁμαρτάνουσι μανικῶσ καὶ τῆσ ἀληθείασ ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἀπαρτωμένοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 12 1:1)
  • σέβω δὲ νύμφασ, ἔνθα Κωρυκὶσ πέτρα κοίλη, φίλορνισ, δαιμόνων ἀναστροφή· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. fond of birds

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

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