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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

  • ἃ δ’ ἔστ’ ἄσημα κοὐ σαφῶσ γιγνώσκομεν, ἐσ πῦρ βλέποντεσ καὶ κατὰ σπλάγχνων πτυχὰσ μάντεισ προσημαίνουσιν οἰωνῶν τ’ ἄπο. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:7)
  • ἐσ γὰρ τοσοῦτον ἀμαθίασ ἔλθοιμεν ἄν, εἰ τοὺσ θεοὺσ ἄκοντασ ἐκπονήσομεν φράζειν ἃ μὴ θέλουσιν, ἢ προβωμίοισ σφαγαῖσι μήλων ἢ δι’ οἰωνῶν πτεροῖσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode 3:23)
  • καθαρὸσ Ἀθήνασ ἔλθ’ ὑπ’ οἰωνῶν καλῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 2:14)
  • γάλακτι δ’ οὐκ ἐπέσχον, οὐδὲ μαστῷ τροφεῖα ματρὸσ οὐδὲ λουτρὰ χειροῖν, ἀνὰ δ’ ἄντρον ἔρημον οἰωνῶν γαμφηλαῖσ φόνευμα θοίναμά τ’ εἰσ Αἵδαν ἐκβάλλῃ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:23)
  • ὧν τ’ ἐπὶ πόντιον οἶδμα θαλάσσησ φῦλα μετ’ ἀλκυόνεσσι ποτῆται, δεῦρ’ ἴτε πευσόμενοι τὰ νεώτερα, πάντα γὰρ ἐνθάδε φῦλ’ ἀθροί̈ζομεν οἰωνῶν ταναοδείρων. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, monody8)

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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