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ὀρθροβόης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρθροβόης ὀρθροβόου

Structure: ὀρθροβο (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. the early caller, chanticleer

Declension

First 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

  • Ὀρθροβόασ, δυσέρωτι κακάγγελε, νῦν, τρισάλαστε, ἐννύχιοσ κράζεισ πλευροτυπῆ κέλαδον, γαῦροσ ὑπὲρ κοίτασ, ὅτε μοι βραχὺ τοῦτ’ ἔτι νυκτὸσ ζῇ τὸ φιλεῖν, ἐπ’ ἐμαῖσ δ’ ἁδὺ γελᾷσ ὀδύναισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1371)

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

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