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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

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

  • αὐᾶ́ τοι ἐκτάμνοντι γεράνδρυα, κάμμορε Μίνδων, φωλὰσ ἀραχναίη σκαιὸν ἔτυψε πόδα, νειόθεν ἀντιάσασα χύδην δ’ ἔβρυξε μελαίνῃ σηπεδόνι χλωρὴν σάρκα κατ’ ἀστραγάλουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2331)
  • ἐχθίστη Μούσαισ σελιδηφάγε, λωβήτειρα φωλάσ, ἀεὶ σοφίησ κλέμματα φερβομένη, τίπτε, κελαινόχρωσ, ἱεραῖσ ψήφοισι λοχάζῃ, σίλφη, τὴν φθονερὴν εἰκόνα πλαττομένη; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2511)

Synonyms

  1. full of lurking places

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

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