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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

  • τὸ δ’ ἐμὲ κολοιῷ πειθόμενον τὸν δύσμορον ἀποσποδῆσαι τοὺσ ὄνυχασ τῶν δακτύλων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 1:7)
  • καὶ κολοιῷ δὲ ἔνδον τρεφομένῳ δεινὸσ κλιμάκιον πρίασθαι καὶ ἀσπίδιον χαλκοῦν ποιῆσαι, ὃ ἔχων ἐπὶ τοῦ κλιμακίου ὁ κολοιὸσ πηδήσεται. (Theophrastus, Characters, 6:1)
  • σὺ δὲ τὸν νόμον μεταβάλλεισ καὶ τὴν τάξιν ἐναλλάττεισ, ἣν ἡ φύσισ κατέδειξεν οὐκ ἐν ἀνθρώποισ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ζώοισ, αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἀκούειν τοῦ βελτίονοσ, καὶ νομίζεισ τὸν ἀετὸν οἱο͂́ν τ’ εἶναι τὸ ἴσον κινεῖσθαι τῷ κολοιῷ, οὗ καὶ προσιόντοσ ἔτι πόρρωθεν δήλη τοῖσ ὁρᾶν καὶ ἀκούειν δυναμένοισ ἡ ἀλκὴ σχίζοντοσ τὸν ἀέρα, ὥσπερ ὅταν ναῦται τῇ κώπῃ τὴν θάλατταν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 29:10)

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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