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φωλάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φωλάς φωλάδος

Structure: φωλαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = fwleu/ousa

Sense

  1. lurking in a hole, lying torpid in its cave
  2. full of lurking places

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φωλάς φωλάδε φωλάδες
Genitive φωλάδος φωλάδοιν φωλάδων
Dative φωλάδι φωλάδοιν φωλάσιν*
Accusative φωλάδα φωλάδε φωλάδας
Vocative φωλά φωλάδε φωλάδες

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

  • ’ Ἀντίγονοσ δ’ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ λέξεωσ τὸ ὄστρεον τοῦτο ὑπὸ Αἰολέων καλεῖσθαι οὖσ Ἀφροδίτησ, αἱ δὲ φωλάδεσ πολυτροφώτεραι, βρομώδεισ δέ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 353)
  • "αἱ δὲ φωλάδεσ εὔστομοι, βρομώδεισ δὲ καὶ κακόχυλοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 4:3)
  • ὦ λύκοι, ὦ θῶεσ, ὦ ἀν’ ὤρεα φωλάδεσ ἄρκτοι, χαίρεθ’. (Theocritus, Idylls, 83)

Synonyms

  1. full of lurking places

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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