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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

  • ἐπιστέφονται δὲ ποτοῖο οἱ κρητῆρεσ ἤτοι ὑπερχειλεῖσ οἱ κρατῆρεσ ποιοῦνται, ὥστε διὰ τοῦ ποτοῦ ἐπιστεφανοῦσθαι, καὶ ταῦτα ἔπρασσον πρὸσ οἰωνοῦ τιθέμενοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 233)
  • νῦν δὲ δὴ εὐφημῶμεν χάριν οἰωνοῦ τὸ τρίτον. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 85:1)
  • εἰσ γὰρ παλαιὸν θᾶκον ὀρνιθοσκόπον ἵζων, ἵν’ ἦν μοι παντὸσ οἰωνοῦ λιμήν, ἀγνῶτ’ ἀκούω φθόγγον ὀρνίθων, κακῷ κλάζοντασ οἴστρῳ καὶ βεβαρβαρωμένῳ. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode12)
  • οὗτοσ αὐτῷ ἀεὶ πολλὰ πράγματα παρέσχ’ ὡσ ὁ Κέρβεροσ καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι, τοῦ Λικυμνίου παιδὸσ Οἰωνοῦ διὰ κύνα φονευθέντοσ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἱπποκοωντιδῶν, ἀναγκασθεὶσ μάχην συνάψαι τῶν τ’ ἄλλων φίλων πολλοὺσ ἀπέβαλε καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰφικλέα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 90 2:1)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσι, τοῦ Λικυμνίου παιδὸσ Οἰωνοῦ διὰ κύνα φονευθέντοσ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἱπποκοωντιδῶν, ἀναγκασθεὶσ μάχην συνάψαι τῶν τ’ ἄλλων φίλων πολλοὺσ ἀπέβαλε καὶ τὸν ἀδελφὸν Ἰφικλέα. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 90 3:1)

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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