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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

  1. a large bird, bird of prey, a vulture or eagle
  2. a bird of omen or augury, to, from)
  3. 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.

Examples

  • ἠιόνεσ δ’ ἅλιαι ἰάκχον οἰωνὸσ οἷ‐ ον τεκέων ὕπερ βοᾷ, ᾇ μὲν εὐνάτορασ, ᾇ δὲ παῖδασ, ᾇ δὲ ματέρασ γεραιάσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 23)
  • οὐκοῦν οὗτοσ οἰωνὸσ μέγασ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 2:6)
  • φησὶ γὰρ ὁ φυσικόσ ἤδη γάρ ποτ’ ἐγὼ γενόμην κούρη τε κόροσ τε, θάμνοσ τ’ οἰωνόσ τε καὶ ἐξ ἁλὸσ ἔμποροσ ἰχθύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 692)
  • "δεῖ οὖν κἀμὲ κατὰ τὸν κωμικὸν Μεταγένην ἐπειπόντα εἷσ οἰωνὸσ ἄριστοσ, ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ δείπνου τετλάναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1006)
  • ὁ δὲ Πύρροσ εἰπὼν ὅτι ταῦτα μέν ἐστι πυλαϊκῆσ ὀχλαγωγίασ καὶ ἀσοφίαν ἔχοντα πολλήν, ἐκεῖνο δὲ δεῖ τὰ ὅπλα διὰ χειρῶν ἔχοντασ ὑποβάλλειν ἑαυτοῖσ, εἷσ οἰωνὸσ ἄριστοσ ἀμύνεσθαι περὶ Πύρρου, ἐξανέστη καὶ προσῆγεν ἅμ’ ἡμέρᾳ τὸν στρατόν. (Plutarch, chapter 29 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a large bird

  2. a bird of omen or augury

Related

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

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