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οἶστρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἶστρος οἴστρου

Structure: οἰστρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. gadfly, breese
  2. an insect which infests tuna
  3. a small insectivorous bird, perhaps the willow warbler

Declension

Second 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

  • οὔτε πόντοσ οὕτωσ κύμασιν στένων λάβρωσ οὔτε γῆσ σεισμὸσ κεραυνοῦ τ’ οἶστροσ ὠδῖνασ πνέων, οἷ’ ἐγὼ στάδια δραμοῦμαι στέρνον εἰσ Ἡρακλέουσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees3)
  • ποῦ δ’ οἶστροσ ἡμᾶσ ἔλαβε; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:21)
  • ὑμᾶσ δὲ τοὺσ νῦν τίσ λύσσα καὶ τίσ οἶστροσ ἄγει πρὸσ μιαιφονίαν, οἷσ τοσαῦτα περίεστι τῶν ἀναγκαίων; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 2 10:1)
  • ἆ ἆ, ἒ ἔ, χρίει τισ αὖ με τὰν τάλαιναν οἶστροσ, εἴδωλον Ἄργου γηγενοῦσ, ἄλευ’ ἆ δᾶ· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, lyric1)
  • Τόφρα δ’ Ἔρωσ πολιοῖο δι’ ἠέροσ ἷξεν ἄφαντοσ, τετρηχώσ, οἱο͂́ν τε νέαισ ἐπὶ φορβάσιν οἶστροσ τέλλεται, ὅν τε μύωπα βοῶν κλείουσι νομῆεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 5:13)

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