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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

  • ἄνθρωποι δὲ περιουσίᾳ συνέσεωσ διὰ τὸ εὐμήχανον ἵππουσ παρατρέφουσι, κύνασ, πέρδικασ, λαγωούσ, κολοιούσ τί οὖν γε σεαυτοῦ κατέγνωκασ, ἀπιθανώτεροσ ὢν κολοιοῦ καὶ ἀφωνότεροσ πέρδικοσ καὶ κυνὸσ ἀγεννέστεροσ, ὥστ’ ἀπ’ ἀνθρώπου μηδενὸσ ὠφελεῖσθαι περιέπων, ψυχαγωγῶν, φυλάττων, προμαχόμενοσ; (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 7 3:1)
  • παρ’ ἡμῖν μὲν γὰρ ἀετοῦ μέγεθοσ ἴσχει καὶ φθέγγεται βαρύ, ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ δὲ κολοιοῦ μέγεθοσ καὶ φθογγὴ διάφοροσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 7:13)

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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