Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πτηνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτηνός πτηνή πτηνόν

Structure: πτην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pth=nai

Sense

  1. feathered, winged
  2. winged creatures, fowls, birds, of winged game
  3. fleeting

Examples

  • Ἐὰν δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν πτηνῶν τῶν προσφερομένων ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν δῶρον τῷ Κυρίῳ, ὃσ ἂν δῷ ἀπὸ τούτων τῷ Κυρίῳ, ἔσται ἅγιον. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 27:9)
  • ζῷα ἐόντα ἕκαστον αὐτῶν ἐσ ἄλλην μορφὴν μεμιμέαται, τὰ μὲν ἐνάλια, τὰ δὲ ἀνθρώπων, τὰ δὲ θηρῶν, τὰ δὲ πτηνῶν, τὰ δὲ κτηνέων. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 6:3)
  • πτηνῶν τε γένη κατακοιμάσθω, θηρῶν τ’ ἀγρίων πόδεσ ὑλοδρόμων μὴ λυέσθων. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, anapests7)
  • οὐδ’ οἱ σοφοί γε δαίμονεσ κεκλημένοι πτηνῶν ὀνείρων εἰσὶν ἀψευδέστεροι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 3:46)
  • πτηνῶν τ’ ἀγέλασ, αἳ βλάπτουσιν σέμν’ ἀναθήματα, τόξοισιν ἐμοῖσ φυγάδασ θήσομεν· (Euripides, Ion, choral, anapests8)

Synonyms

  1. feathered

  2. winged creatures

  3. fleeting

Related

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

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