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κολοιός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολοιός κολοιοῦ

Structure: κολοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a jackdaw, daw

Declension

Second 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

  • οἰνοβαρέσ, κυνὸσ ὄμματ’ ἔχων, κραδίην δ’ ἐλάφοιο, οὔτε ποτ’ ἐν πολέμῳ ἐναρίθμιοσ οὔτ’ ἐνὶ βουλῇ, Θερσίτ’ ἀκριτόμυθε, κακῶν πανάριστε κολοιῶν μάψ, ἀτὰρ οὐ κατὰ κόσμον, ἐριζέμεναι βασιλεῦσιν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 30:9)
  • καὶ περὶ τῶν κολοιῶν δὲ καλουμένων τὰ ὅμοια ἱστορεῖ ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 2:3)
  • σοφίσματα καὶ κολοιῶν, ἔστι γὰρ δῆλα, μάρτυρι χρήσομαι Θαλῇ τῷ παλαιοτάτῳ τῶν σοφῶν, ὃν οὐχ ἥκιστα θαυμασθῆναι λέγουσιν ὀρέωσ τέχνῃ περιγενόμενον. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 16 1:1)
  • λωίτεροσ κύκνου μικρὸσ θρόοσ ἠὲ κολοιῶν κρωγμὸσ ἐν εἰαριναῖσ κιδνάμενοσ νεφέλαισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 713 1:2)
  • "τῶν γὰρ ὁμοιοτήτων ἡ μὲν μάχιμοσ ὥσπερ ἀλεκτρυόνων, ἡ δ’ ἐπιεικὴσ ὥσπερ ἡ τῶν κολοιῶν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 29:11)

Synonyms

  1. a jackdaw

Related

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

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