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πτέρινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτέρινος πτέρινη πτέρινον

Structure: πτεριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. made of feathers, a feather-
  2. feathered, winged

Examples

  • ἢ πάλαι φεύγεισ φόβῳ, Φρυγίοισ ἔτυχον Φρυγίοισι νόμοισ παρὰ βόστρυχον αὔραν αὔραν Ἑλένασ Ἑλένασ εὐπαγεῖ κύκλῳ πτερίνῳ πρὸ παρηίδοσ ἀίσσων βαρβάροισ νόμοισιν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:2)
  • θύοντεσ εὐξώμεσθα τοῖσ πτερίνοισ θεοῖσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 1 1:1)
  • ἦ τοῦτον λέγεισ τὸν Πτέρινον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 10 3:7)
  • τῶν δὲ ναῶν τὸν μὲν πτέρινον εἰσ τοὺσ μύθουσ τακτέον, τὸν δὲ δεύτερον Τροφωνίου καὶ Ἀγαμήδουσ ἔργον φασί, τὸν δὲ νῦν Ἀμφικτύονεσ κατεσκεύασαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. made of feathers

  2. feathered

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

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