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ὄρτυξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄρτυξ ὄρτυγος

Structure: ὀρτυγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. quail

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄρτυξ ό̓ρτυγε ό̓ρτυγες
Genitive ό̓ρτυγος ὀρτύγοιν ὀρτύγων
Dative ό̓ρτυγι ὀρτύγοιν ό̓ρτυξιν*
Accusative ό̓ρτυγα ό̓ρτυγε ό̓ρτυγας
Vocative ό̓ρτυξ ό̓ρτυγε ό̓ρτυγες

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

  • καίτοι τί ἂν πάθοισ, εἰ θεάσαιο καὶ ὀρτύγων καὶ ἀλεκτρυόνων ἀγῶνασ παρ’ ἡμῖν καὶ σπουδὴν ἐπὶ τούτοισ οὐ μικράν; (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 37:1)
  • λέγεται δὲ πολλῆσ οἰκειότητοσ αὐτοῖσ καὶ συνηθείασ ὑπαρχούσησ πολλάκισ σχολαζόντων εἰσ παιδιὰν σφαίρασ ἢ κύβων ἢ νὴ Δία θρεμμάτων ἁμίλλησ, οἱο͂ν ὀρτύγων, ἀλεκτρυόνων, ἀεὶ νικώμενον Ἀντώνιον ἀπαλλάττεσθαι· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 7 2:2)
  • , οἱο͂ν ὀρτύγων, ἀλεκτρυόνων, ἀεὶ νικώμενον Ἀντώνιον ἀπαλλάττεσθαι· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 7 6:1)
  • περὶ δὲ τῆσ τῶν ὀρτύγων θήρασ ἰδίωσ ἱστορεῖ Κλέαρχοσ ὁ Σολεὺσ ἐν τῷ ἐπιγραφομένῳ περὶ τῶν ἐν τῇ Πλάτωνοσ Πολιτείᾳ μαθηματικῶσ εἰρημένων γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 2:1)
  • πλείουσ δ’ εἰσὶ νῦν τῶν ὀρτύγων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 562)

Synonyms

  1. quail

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