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πηνέλοψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηνέλοψ πηνέλοπος

Structure: πηνελοπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. duck

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

  • οὑτοσὶ πέρδιξ, ἐκεινοσί γε νὴ Δί’ ἀτταγᾶσ, οὑτοσὶ δὲ πηνέλοψ, ἐκεινηὶ δέ γ’ ἀλκυών. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric39)
  • ᾖδον δ’ ὑπὸ φιλορνιθίασ πάντεσ μέλη, ὅπου χελιδὼν ἦν τισ ἐμπεποιημένη ἢ πηνέλοψ ἢ χήν τισ ἢ περιστερὰ ἢ πτέρυγεσ, ἢ πτεροῦ τι καὶ σμικρὸν προσῆν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 117)

Synonyms

  1. duck

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

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