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ὀρνιθευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρνιθευτικός ὀρνιθευτική ὀρνιθευτικόν

Structure: ὀρνιθευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from o)rni_qeu/w

Sense

  1. of or for bird-catching, the art of bird-catching, fowling

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ τοῦ πτηνοῦ μὴν γένουσ πᾶσα ἡμῖν ἡ θήρα λέγεταί πού τισ ὀρνιθευτική. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 26:3)

Similar forms

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

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