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νυκτερίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτερίς νυκτερίδος

Structure: νυκτεριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: nu/kteros

Sense

  1. a bat

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

  • ἡ δὲ πτῆσισ οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ νυκτερίδασ εἰρεσίᾳ συνεχεῖ τῶν πτερῶν οὔτε κατὰ τὰσ ἀκρίδασ μετὰ πηδήματοσ οὔτε ὡσ οἱ σφῆκεσ μετὰ ῥοιζήματοσ, ἀλλ’ εὐκαμπὴσ πρὸσ ὅ τι ἂν μέροσ ὁρμήσῃ τοῦ ἀέροσ· (Lucian, Muscae Encomium, (no name) 2:1)
  • ἐνίαισ δὲ καὶ πολλὰσ ἅμα τῶν ἐκγόνων ἔλεγε συνηρτῆσθαι, καθάπερ μελίττασ ἢ νυκτερίδασ ἀτεχνῶσ ἐχομένασ καὶ τετριγυίασ ὑπὸ μνήμησ καὶ ὀργῆσ ὧν ἔπαθον δι’ αὐτάσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 68:1)

Related

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

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