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πελαργός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελαργός πελαργοῦ

Structure: πελαργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: From pelo/s, a)rgo/s, properly, the blackandwhite.

Sense

  1. stork

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

  • ἕτεροι δ’ ἐπλινθοφόρουν πελαργοὶ μύριοι· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene17)
  • πολλά τε τῶν ζῴων οὐ κατὰ πᾶσαν ὡρ́αν φαίνεται, οἱο͂ν τὰ φωλεύοντα, καὶ ὅσα δὲ μὴ φωλεύει οὐκ αἰεὶ φαίνεται, οἱο͂ν χελιδόνεσ καὶ πελαργοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 49 2:2)
  • εἴρηται δ’ ὅτι κἀνταῦθα φαίνεται τὸ τῶν Πελασγῶν ἔθνοσ ἐπιδημῆσαν, καὶ διότι ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀττικῶν Πελαργοὶ προσηγορεύθησαν διὰ τὴν πλάνην. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 1 26:5)

Synonyms

  1. stork

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