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πελεκᾶς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πελεκᾶς πελεκᾶντος

Structure: πελεκαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from peleka/w

Sense

  1. the woodpecker, joiner-bird

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

  • καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ ὀρνιθαρίων ἄφατον πλῆθοσ, νηττῶν, φαττῶν, χῆνεσ, στρουθοί, κίχλαι, κόρυδοι, κίτται, κύκνοι, πελεκάν, κίγκλοι, γέρανοσ Β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. the woodpecker

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

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