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νῆττα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῆττα νήττης

Structure: νηττ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a duck

Declension

First 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

  • μέλι, πέρδικεσ, φάτται, νῆτται, χῆνεσ, ψᾶρεσ, κίττα, κολοιόσ, κόψιχοσ, ὄρτυξ, ὄρνισ θήλεια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 71 1:2)
  • οὐδὲ φιν ἁρ́παι οὐδ’ ὄφισ ὀστρακέοισ λωβήσιμοι ἐξενέπονται, νῆτται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 51 4:4)
  • "ἔπειτ’ εἰσφέρεται πλοῦτοσ ἀντὶ δείπνου, πίναξ ἀργυροῦσ ἐπὶ πάχοσ οὐκ ὀλίγον περίχρυσοσ, ὅσοσ δέξασθαι μέγεθοσ χοίρου τινὸσ ὀπτοῦ καὶ σφόδρα μεγάλου, ὃσ ὕπτιοσ ἐπέκειτο τὴν γαστέρα δεικνὺσ ἄνω πλήρη οὖσαν πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἦσαν γὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ συνωπτημέναι κίχλαι καὶ νῆτται καὶ συκαλλίδων πλῆθοσ ἄπειρον καὶ ᾠῶν ἐπικεχυμέναι λέκιθοι καὶ ὄστρεα καὶ κτένεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 2 3:4)
  • καὶ νὴ Δί’ αἱ νῆτταί γε περιεζωσμέναι ἐπλινθοφόρουν· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a duck

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