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νύκτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νύκτερος νύκτερον

Structure: νυκτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = nukterino/s, Aesch., Soph.

Sense

Examples

  • ἔγειρε φλογέασ λαμπάδασ ἐν χερσὶ γὰρ ἥκει τινάσσων, Ιἄκχ’ ὦ Ιἄκχε, νυκτέρου τελετῆσ φωσφόροσ ἀστήρ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, antistrophe 11)
  • ἐκ δείματόσ του νυκτέρου, δοκεῖν ἐμοί; (Sophocles, episode 5:35)

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

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