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ὄρνις

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρνις ὄρνιθος

Structure: ὀρνιθ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: gen. o)/rni_qos; acc. o)/rniqa and o)/rnin

Sense

  1. bird
  2. chicken

Declension

Third 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

  • διὰ σέ, τὰν κύκνου δολιχαύχενοσ γόνον, εἰ δὴ φάτισ ἔτυμοσ ὡσ ἔτυχεν, Λήδα ὄρνιθι πταμένῳ Διὸσ ὅτ’ ἠλλάχθη δέμασ, εἴτ’ ἐν δέλτοισ Πιερίσιν μῦθοι τάδ’ ἐσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἤνεγκαν παρὰ καιρὸν ἄλλωσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, epode5)
  • ἢν Ἀφροδίτῃ θύῃ, πυροὺσ ὄρνιθι φαληρίδι θύειν· (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme8)
  • "καὶ ἀλλαχόθι θηλυκῶσ ὄρνιθι λιγυρῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:8)
  • σχεδόθεν δέ οἱ ἦν παράσιτοσ Χαιρεφόων, πεινῶντι λάρῳ ὄρνιθι ἐοικώσ, νήστησ, ἀλλοτρίων εὖ εἰδὼσ δειπνοσυνάων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 4:2)
  • ὄρνιθι γὰρ καὶ τὴν τότ’ αἰσίῳ τύχην παρέσχεσ ἡμῖν, καὶ τανῦν ἴσοσ γενοῦ. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:14)

Synonyms

  1. bird

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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