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νυκτικόραξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτικόραξ νυκτικόρακος

Structure: νυκτικορακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the night-raven

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

  • καὶ νυκτικόρακα καὶ καταρράκτην καὶ ἶβιν (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:17)
  • καὶ καταράκτην καὶ ἱέρακα καὶ τὰ ὅμοια αὐτῷ καὶ ἔποπα καὶ νυκτικόρακα (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 14:17)
  • καὶ νῦν μὴ πέσοι τὸ αἷμά μου ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐξεναντίασ προσώπου Κυρίου, ὅτι ἐξελήλυθεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ἰσραὴλ ζητεῖν ψυχήν μου, καθὼσ καταδιώκει ὁ νυκτικόραξ ἐν τοῖσ ὄρεσι. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 26:20)
  • ὡμοιώθην πελεκᾶνι ἐρημικῷ, ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ νυκτικόραξ ἐν οἰκοπέδῳ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 101:7)
  • νυκτικόραξ ᾄδει θανατηφόρον ἀλλ’ ὅταν ᾅσῃ Δημόφιλοσ, θνήσκει καὐτὸσ ὁ νυκτικόραξ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1861)
  • καὶ ὁ νυκτικόραξ ἰδιότροποσ ἐνθάδε· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 2 7:12)

Synonyms

  1. the night-raven

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

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