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νυκτοθήρης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυκτοθήρης νυκτοθήρου

Structure: νυκτοθηρ (Stem) + ᾱς (Ending)

Etym.: qhra/w

Sense

  1. a night-hunter

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νυκτοθήρης νυκτοθήρᾱ νυκτοθῆραι
Genitive νυκτοθήρου νυκτοθήραιν νυκτοθηρῶν
Dative νυκτοθήρᾱͅ νυκτοθήραιν νυκτοθήραις
Accusative νυκτοθήρᾱν νυκτοθήρᾱ νυκτοθήρᾱς
Vocative νυκτοθήρᾱ νυκτοθήρᾱ νυκτοθῆραι

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 ταῦτα δὲ ῥᾴδια εἶναι μαθεῖν παρά τε νυκτοθηρῶν καὶ κυβερνητῶν καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν οἷσ ἐπιμελὲσ ταῦτα εἰδέναι. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 7 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a night-hunter

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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