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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

  • μὴ θεαί μ’ οἴστρῳ κατάσχωσι. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:11)
  • παλαιὸν, δ’ εἰσ ἴχνοσ μετέσταν ματέροσ ἀνθονόμουσ ἐπωπάσ, λειμῶνα βούχιλον, ἔνθεν Ιὢ οἴστρῳ ἐρεθομένα φεύγει ἁμαρτίνοοσ, πολλὰ βροτῶν διαμειβομένα φῦλα, διχῇ δ’ ἀντίπορον γαῖαν ἐν αἴσᾳ διατέμ‐ νουσα πόρον κυματίαν ὁρίζει· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 21)
  • εἰσ γὰρ παλαιὸν θᾶκον ὀρνιθοσκόπον ἵζων, ἵν’ ἦν μοι παντὸσ οἰωνοῦ λιμήν, ἀγνῶτ’ ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων, κακῷ κλάζοντασ οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode12)
  • ὡσ δ’ ὅτε τίσ τε μύωπι τετυμμένοσ ἔσσυτο ταῦροσ πίσεά τε προλιπὼν καὶ ἑλεσπίδασ, οὐδὲ νομήων οὐδ’ ἀγέλησ ὄθεται, πρήσσει δ’ ὁδόν, ἄλλοτ’ ἄπαυστοσ, ἄλλοτε δ’ ἱστάμενοσ, καὶ ἀνὰ πλατὺν αὐχέν’ ἀείρων ἱήσιν μύκημα, κακῷ βεβολημένοσ οἴστρῳ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:8)
  • ἦ ῥα μάτην ἐπόνησε λιθοξόοσ, ὅσ σε, τὸν οἴστρῳ κυμήναντα θεούσ, τῇδ’ ἐνέδησε πάγῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 196 1:1)

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