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φίλορνις?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: philornis

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 οἱο῀ν 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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