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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

  • ὃν καὶ πρὶν ἐσ φῶσ μητρὸσ ἐκ γονῆσ μολεῖν, ἄγονον Ἀπόλλων Λαί̈ῳ μ’ ἐθέσπισεν φονέα γενέσθαι πατρόσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:11)
  • Πλάτων Λαίῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 785)
  • ζητῶν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὡσ οὐκ ὄντα Κορίνθιον ἀλλὰ ξένον, ἀπήντησε τῷ Λαϊῴ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνελὼν καὶ τὴν μητέρα λαβὼν ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ γυναῖκα καὶ δοκῶν εἶναι μακάριοσ πάλιν ἑαυτὸν ἐζήτει. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 144)
  • ζητῶν γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ὡσ οὐκ ὄντα Κορίνθιον ἀλλὰ ξένον, ἀπήντησε τῷ Λαϊῴ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνελὼν καὶ τὴν μητέρα λαβὼν ἐπὶ τῇ βασιλείᾳ γυναῖκα καὶ δοκῶν εἶναι μακάριοσ πάλιν ἑαυτὸν ἐζήτει. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 14 3:1)
  • "τί οὐκ ἄν τισ προσδοκήσειεν, εἰ καὶ Πρωτογένησ ἔρωτι πολεμήσων πάρεστιν ᾧ καὶ παιδιὰ πᾶσα καὶ σπουδὴ περὶ Ἔρωτα καὶ δι’ Ἔρωτοσ, λήθη μὲν λόγων λήθη δὲ πάτρασ, οὐχ ὡσ τῷ Λαϊῴ πέντε μόνον ἡμερῶν ἀπέχοντι τῆσ πατρίδοσ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 3 2:2)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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