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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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ἴκαροσ ἅτε κηρῷ τὴν πτέρωσιν ἡρμοσμένοσ, ἐπειδὴ τάχιστα πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον ἐκεῖνοσ ἐτάκη, πτερορρυήσασ εἰκότωσ κατέπεσεν ἡμῖν δ’ ἀκήρωτα ἦν τὰ ὠκύπτερα, πῶσ λέγεισ ; (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 3:3)
  • μῶν με σκώπτετον ὁρῶντε τὴν πτέρωσιν; (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 3:12)

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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