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κύμινδις?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: kymindis

Principal Part: κύμινδις κύμινδος

Structure: κυμινδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the night-jar

Declension

Third 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

  • 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

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

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