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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πελεκᾶς πελεκάντε πελεκάντες
Genitive πελεκάντος πελεκάντοιν πελεκάντων
Dative πελεκάντι πελεκάντοιν πελεκᾶσιν*
Accusative πελεκάντα πελεκάντε πελεκάντας
Vocative πελεκάν πελεκάντε πελεκάντες

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

  • ὄρνιθεσ ἦσαν τέκτονεσ σοφώτατοι πελεκᾶντεσ, οἳ τοῖσ ῥύγχεσιν ἀπεπελέκησαν τὰσ πύλασ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. the woodpecker

Similar forms

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

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