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λαιός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιός λαιός

Structure: λαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. blue thrush, Petrocichla cyanus

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 μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Λαϊού καὶ γελοῖον, τό· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 13:1)
  • καί νιν κελεύει Λαί̈ου τροχηλάτησ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 3:3)
  • πόλεοσ ἐκπροκριθεῖσ’ ἐμᾶσ καλλιστεύματα Λοξίᾳ Καδμείων ἔμολον γᾶν, κλεινῶν Ἀγηνοριδᾶν ὁμογενεῖσ ἐπὶ Λαί̈ου πεμφθεῖσ’ ἐνθάδε πύργουσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • πατὴρ μὲν ἡμῖν Οἰδίπουσ ὁ Λαί̈ου, ἔτικτε δ’ Ιὀκάστη με, παῖσ Μενοικέωσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode16)
  • κτανὼν δ’ ἐμαυτοῦ πατέρ’ ὁ δυσδαίμων ἐγὼ ἐσ μητρὸσ ἦλθον τῆσ ταλαιπώρου λέχοσ, παῖδάσ τ’ ἀδελφοὺσ ἔτεκον, οὓσ ἀπώλεσα, ἀρὰσ παραλαβὼν Λαί̈ου καὶ παισὶ δούσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:28)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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