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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

  • ἡμεῖσ δὲ ἀεὶ πλέοντεσ καὶ ἐκ παίδων σχεδὸν ἐργαζόμενοι ἐν τῷ Ἠριδανῷ ὀλίγουσ μὲν κύκνουσ ἐνίοτε ὁρῶμεν ἐν τοῖσ ἕλεσι τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ κρώζουσιν οὗτοι πάνυ ἄμουσον καὶ ἀσθενέσ, ὡσ τοὺσ κόρακασ ἢ τοὺσ κολοιοὺσ Σειρῆνασ εἶναι πρὸσ αὐτούσ, ᾀδόντων δὲ ἡδὺ καὶ οἱο͂ν σὺ φὴσ οὐδὲ ὄναρ ἀκηκόαμεν ὥστε θαυμάζομεν πόθεν ταῦτα εἰσ ὑμᾶσ ἀφίκετο περὶ ἡμῶν. (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 5:2)
  • καὶ πῶσ ἡμᾶσ νομιοῦσι θεοὺσ ἄνθρωποι κοὐχὶ κολοιούσ, οἳ πετόμεσθα πτέρυγάσ τ’ ἔχομεν; (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme14)
  • τῶν γὰρ θεῶν τισ ἄρτι τῶν παρὰ τοῦ Διὸσ διὰ τῶν πυλῶν εἰσέπτετ’ ἐσ τὸν ἀέρα, λαθὼν κολοιοὺσ φύλακασ ἡμεροσκόπουσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:20)
  • νάσσασ, κολοιούσ, ἀτταγᾶσ, φαλαρίδασ, τροχίλουσ, κολύμβουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 2:3)
  • 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)

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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