Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὁμόπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμόπτερος ὁμόπτερον

Structure: ὁμοπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. of or with the same plumage, fellow-birds, birds of, feather
  2. of like feather, closely resembling, consort-, equally swift)

Examples

  • ὁ δ’ ἐν δόμοισι πρέσβυσ ὀμματοστερὴσ ἀπήνασ ὁμοπτέρου τᾶσ ἀπο‐ ζυγείσασ δόμων πόθον ἀμφιδάκρυτον ἀεὶ κατ‐ έχων ἀνῇξε μὲν ξίφουσ ἐπ’ αὐτόχειρά τε σφαγάν, ὑπὲρ τέραμνά τ’ ἀγχόνασ, στενάζων ἀρὰσ τέκνοισ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 2:1)

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

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