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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

  • κύκλῳ μὲν περὶ πᾶσαν αὐτὴν ὕλη ἀνέστηκεν, τὰ δένδρα δέ ἐστι μήκωνεσ ὑψηλαὶ καὶ μανδραγόραι καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν πολύ τι πλῆθοσ νυκτερίδων τοῦτο γὰρ μόνον ἐν τῇ νήσῳ γίνεται ὄρνεον. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 33:1)
  • τρίτον πάθοσ ἐστὶ ὑμένων, ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, οἱο͂́ν τι λέπεα πλατέα, ἢ νυκτερίδων πτέρυγεσ ἐκφαίνονται· ἱμάντιον τόδε καλέεται. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 88)
  • ὥσπερ γὰρ τὰ τῶν νυκτερίδων ὄμματα πρὸσ τὸ φέγγοσ ἔχει τὸ μεθ’ ἡμέραν, οὕτω καὶ τῆσ ἡμετέρασ ψυχῆσ ὁ νοῦσ πρὸσ τὰ τῇ φύσει φανερώτατα πάντων. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 2 6:3)

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

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