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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

  • καὶ ἡρ́ωσιν ὄρνισι καὶ ἡρώων παισί, πορφυρίωνι καὶ πελεκᾶντι καὶ πελεκίνῳ καὶ φλέξιδι καὶ τέτρακι καὶ ταὧνι καὶ ἐλεᾷ καὶ βασκᾷ καὶ ἐλασᾷ καὶ ἐρωδιῷ καὶ καταρράκτῃ καὶ μελαγκορύφῳ καὶ αἰγιθάλλῳ ‐ παῦ’ ἐσ κόρακασ, παῦσαι καλῶν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:11)
  • "’ πορφυρίωνι καὶ πελεκᾶντι καὶ πελεκίνῳ καὶ φλέξιδι καὶ τέτρακι καὶ ταὧνι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 58 1:3)

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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