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κύμινδις

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύμινδις κύμινδος

Structure: κυμινδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the night-jar

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύμινδις κύμινδε κύμινδες
Genitive κύμινδος κυμίνδοιν κυμίνδων
Dative κύμινδι κυμίνδοιν κύμινσιν*
Accusative κύμινδα κύμινδε κύμινδας
Vocative κύμιν κύμινδε κύμινδες

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

  • ἀλλ’ ἐπέμψαμεν τρισμυρίουσ ἱέρακασ ἱπποτοξότασ, χωρεῖ δὲ πᾶσ τισ ὄνυχασ ἠγκυλωμένοσ, κερχνῂσ τριόρχησ γὺψ κύμινδισ αἰετόσ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:26)

Synonyms

  1. the night-jar

Similar forms

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

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