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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

  • μάτηρ δ’ ὡσεί τισ πτανοῖσ ὄρνισιν, ὅπωσ ἐξάρξω ’γὼ κλαγγάν, μολπάν, οὐ τὰν αὐτὰν οἱάν ποτὲ δὴ σκήπτρῳ Πριάμου διερειδομένα ποδὸσ ἀρχεχόρου πληγαῖσ Φρυγίουσ εὐκόμποισ ἐξῆρχον θεούσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, lyric5)
  • βοὴ τὸ ἐπὶ τούτοισ, καὶ συμπεσόντεσ ἔπαιον ἀλλήλουσ ταῖσ ὄρνισιν αὐταῖσ ἐσ τὰ πρόσωπα, καὶ τῶν πωγώνων ἐπειλημμένοι ἐπεκαλοῦντο βοηθεῖν, ὁ . (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 43:5)
  • ὅσα γάρ ἐστιν ἐνθάδ’ αἰσχρὰ τῷ νόμῳ κρατούμενα, ταῦτα πάντ’ ἐστὶν παρ’ ἡμῖν τοῖσιν ὄρνισιν καλά. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, epirrheme2)
  • εὔχεσθε τῇ Ἑστίᾳ τῇ ὀρνιθείῳ καὶ τῷ ἰκτίνῳ τῷ ἑστιούχῳ καὶ ὄρνισιν Ὀλυμπίοισ καὶ Ὀλυμπίῃσι πᾶσι καὶ πάσῃσιν ‐ ὦ Σουνιέρακε χαῖρ’ ἄναξ Πελαργικέ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:7)
  • μάλιστα δ’ ὅτι καλὸν νομίζεται τὸν πατέρα τοῖσ ὄρνισιν ἄγχειν καὶ δάκνειν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric10)

Synonyms

  1. bird

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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