οἰωνός
Second declension Noun; Masculine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
οἰωνός
οἰωνοῦ
Structure:
οἰων
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Etym.: commonly deriv. from
oi)=os,
|- most birds of prey being solitary, - cf.
koinwno/s from
koino/s
Sense
- a large bird, bird of prey, a vulture or eagle
- a bird of omen or augury, to, from)
- an omen, presage, augurium, seeing their flight or hearing their cry, the omen
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.
- δι’ ἀέροσ εἴθε ποτανοὶ γενοίμεσθ’ ᾇ Λιβύασ οἰωνοὶ στοχάδεσ ὄμβρον λιποῦσαι χειμέριον νίσονται πρεσβυτάτᾳ σύριγγι πειθόμεναι ποιμένοσ, ὃσ ἄβροχα πεδία καρποφόρα τε γᾶσ ἐπιπετόμενοσ ἰαχεῖ. (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 21)
- ἀλλ’ ἄρα τόν γε κύνεσ τε καὶ οἰωνοὶ κατέδαψαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 64 3:8)
- "ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ πρῶτον ἐνταῦθά φασιν ἡρῷον μέτρον ἀκουσθῆναι, συμφέρετε πτερά, οἰωνοί, κηρόν τε, μέλισσαι ὅτε τῷ θεῷ ἐπιδεᾶ γενομένην ἀποβαλεῖν τὸ σεμνόν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 1716)
- τοὶ δ’ ὑπ’ ὀμοκλῆσ ῥίμφα φέρον θοὸν ἁρ́μα τανύπτεροι ὥστ’ οἰωνοί. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 12:2)
- φύσιν ἔχουσι τοῖσ μὲν διασῶσαι τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἀγαθὰ βουλομένοισ οἱ περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν ἀναστρεφόμενοι τόπον οἰωνοὶ σχολαιοτέρᾳ τῇ πτήσει πρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ εἶναι συμβόλου, τοῖσ δὲ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐφιεμένοισ οἱ τὴν ἐπίτομον καὶ ταχεῖαν ὀρμὴν ἔχοντεσ εἰσ τὰ πρόσω· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 7 2:4)
Synonyms
-
a large bird
-
a bird of omen or augury
