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πτέρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτέρωσις πτέρωσεως

Structure: πτερωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/w

Sense

  1. plumage

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

  • λυπήσεσθε οὖν, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, καὶ δυσάρεστοι ἔσεσθε τὰ ἐπὶ τῆσ οἰκίασ, καὶ μάλιστα σύ, ὦ Τιμόλαε, ὁπόταν δέῃ σε τὸ αὐτὸ παθεῖν τῷ Ἰκάρῳ τῆσ πτερώσεωσ διαλυθείσησ καταπεσόντα ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ χαμαὶ βαδίζειν ἀπολέσαντα τοὺσ δακτυλίουσ ἐκείνουσ ἅπαντασ ἀπορρυέντασ τῶν δακτύλων. (Lucian, 79:2)
  • εἰ δ’ αὖ τισ ἐθέλοι σκοπεῖν τῆσ πτερώσεωσ τὸ κοῦφον, ὡσ μὴ χαλεπὸν εἶναι μηδὲ δύσφορον διὰ τὸ μῆκοσ, ἐν μέσῳ μάλα ἥσυχον καὶ ἀτρεμοῦντα παρέχει θεάσασθαι ἑαυτόν, ὥσπερ ἐν πομπῇ περιστρεφόμενοσ, ὅταν δὲ βουληθῇ ἐκπλῆξαι, σείων τὰ πτερὰ καί τινα ἦχον οὐκ ἀηδῆ ποιῶν, οἱο͂ν ἀνέμου κινήσαντοσ οὐ πολλοῦ πυκνήν τινα ὕλην. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. plumage

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

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