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νυκτικλέπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτικλέπτης νυκτικλέπτου

Structure: νυκτικλεπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. thief of the night

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυκτικλέπτης νυκτικλέπτᾱ νυκτικλέπται
Genitive νυκτικλέπτου νυκτικλέπταιν νυκτικλεπτῶν
Dative νυκτικλέπτῃ νυκτικλέπταιν νυκτικλέπταις
Accusative νυκτικλέπτην νυκτικλέπτᾱ νυκτικλέπτᾱς
Vocative νυκτικλέπτα νυκτικλέπτᾱ νυκτικλέπται

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

  • τὸν πτανὸν Ἑρμᾶν, τὸν θεῶν ὑπηρέταν, τὸν Ἀρκάδων ἄνακτα, τὸν βοηλάταν, ἑστῶτα τῶνδε γυμνασίων ἐπίσκοπον, ὁ νυκτικλέπτασ Αὖλοσ εἶπε βαστάσασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1761)

Synonyms

  1. thief of the night

Similar forms

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

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