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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

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

  • "εἰσ Αἴγυπτον οἱ ἀτταγαῖ καὶ ἀφεθέντεσ εἰσ τὰσ ὕλασ ἑώσ μέν τινοσ ὄρτυγοσ φωνὴν ἀφίεσαν, ἐπεὶ δὲ τοῦ ποταμοῦ κοίλου ῥυέντοσ λιμὸσ ἐγένετο καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν χώραν ἀπώλλυντο, οὐ διέλιπον σαφέστερον τῶν παίδων τῶν τρανοτάτων ἑώσ νῦν λέγοντεσ ’ τρὶσ τοῖσ κακούργοισ κακά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 39 2:2)
  • "ἐστὶ μὲν τῶν ἐκτοπιζόντων καὶ σχιδανοπόδων καὶ τριδακτύλων, μέγεθοσ ἀλεκτρυόνοσ μεγάλου, χρῶμα ὄρτυγοσ, κεφαλὴ προμήκησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 44 1:2)
  • τὸν χαρακτῆρα, διὰ τοῦ γ, ὄρτυγοσ, ὄρυγοσ, κόκκυγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 1:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ δήμου κροτοῦντοσ καὶ βοῶντοσ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ, ἐπιλαθέσθαι τοῦ ὄρτυγοσ ὃν ἐτύγχανεν ἔχων ἐν τῷ ἱματίῳ· (Plutarch, , chapter 10 1:2)
  • ἀξιοῦντοσ αὐτούσ, ἐπεὶ τέθυκε καὶ ξένουσ ἑστιᾶν μέλλει, τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ὑπερθέσθαι, γελάσαντεσ ἂν καὶ κροτήσαντεσ ἀνέστησαν οῦδ̓ Ἀλκιβιάδην ὄρτυγοσ ἐν τῷ λέγειν διαφυγόντοσ ἐκ τοῦ ἱματίου, φιλοτίμωσ συνθηρεύσαντεσ ἀπέδωκαν ἄν· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 3 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. quail

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