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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

  • Ἐν δὲ τετάρτῃ μηνὸσ ἄγεσθαι οἶκον ἄκοιτιν οἰωνοὺσ κρίνασ, οἳ ἐπ’ ἔργματι τούτῳ ἄριστοι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 97:1)
  • ταῦτ’ ἄρ’ ἐποίουν ὑγρᾶν Νεφελᾶν στρεπταιγλᾶν δάιον ὁρμάν, πλοκάμουσ θ’ ἑκατογκεφάλα Τυφῶ πρημαινούσασ τε θυέλλασ, εἶτ’ ἀερίασ διεράσ, γαμψοὺσ οἰωνοὺσ ἀερονηχεῖσ, ὄμβρουσ θ’ ὑδάτων δροσερᾶν Νεφελᾶν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests22)
  • ἃ ὁ Κωλώτησ παραθέμενοσ οὐ συνεῖδεν, ὅτι φῶτασ μὲν καὶ θῆρασ καὶ θάμνουσ καὶ οἰωνοὺσ ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ οὐκ ἀνῄρηκεν, ἅ γέ φησι μιγνυμένων τῶν στοιχείων ἀποτελεῖσθαι τοὺσ δὲ τῇ συγκρίσει ταύτῃ καὶ διακρίσει φύσιν τινὰ καὶ πότμον δυσδαίμονα καὶ θάνατον ἀλοίτην ἐπικατηγοροῦντασ, σφάλλονται διδάξασ, οὐκ ἀφείλετο τὸ χρῆσθαι ταῖσ εἰθισμέναισ φωναῖσ περὶ αὐτῶν. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 1114)
  • "οἱ πάντα μὲν εἰδότεσ πάντα δὲ δυνάμενοι θεοί, οὕτω μοι φίλοι εἰσίν, ὡσ διὰ τὸ ἐπιμελεῖσθαί μου οὔποτε λήθω αὐτοὺσ οὔτε νυκτὸσ οὔθ’ ἡμέρασ οὔθ’ ὅποι ἂν ὁρμῶμαι οὔθ’ ὅ τι ἂν μέλλω πράττειν διὰ δὲ τὸ προειδέναι καὶ ὅ τι ἐξ ἑκάστου ἀποβήσεται σημαίνουσι, πέμποντεσ ἀγγέλουσ, φήμασ καὶ ἐνύπνια καὶ οἰωνούσ. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 22 12:2)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα προελθὼν ἀναγορεῦσαι τὸν Δολοβέλλαν, Ἀντωνίου τοὺσ οἰωνοὺσ ἐναντιοῦσθαι βοῶντοσ, εἶξε καὶ προήκατο Δολοβέλλαν ἀχθόμενον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 11 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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