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ὀρτάλιχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρτάλιχος

Structure: ὀρταλιχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a chick, chicken, a young bird

Declension

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

  • χωρὶσ δ’ οὐδέποκ’ ἦσ, οὔτ’ εἰ μέσον ἆμαρ ὄροιτο, οὔτ’ ἄρ’ ὅχ’ ἁ λεύκιπποσ ἀνατρέχοι ἐσ Διὸσ Ἀώσ, οὐδ’ ὁπόκ’ ὀρτάλιχοι μινυροὶ ποτὶ κοῖτον ὁρῷεν, σεισαμένασ πτερὰ ματρὸσ ἐπ’ αἰθαλόεντι πετεύρῳ, ὡσ αὐτῷ κατὰ θυμὸν ὁ παῖσ πεποναμένοσ εἰή, αὐτῷ δ’ εὖ ἕλκων ἐσ ἀλαθινὸν ἄνδρ’ ἀποβαίη. (Theocritus, Idylls, 4)

Synonyms

  1. a chick

Related

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

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