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κύκνειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύκνειος κύκνειᾱ κύκνειον

Structure: κυκνει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a swan

Examples

  • "φιλοσκώπτησ τισ μέλλων ὑπὸ τοῦ δημίου σφάττεσθαι ἔτι ἕν τι ἔφη θέλειν ὥσπερ τὸ κύκνειον ᾄσασ ἀποθανεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 63)

Synonyms

  1. of a swan

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

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