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ῥάμφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥάμφος ῥάμφεος

Structure: ῥαμφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a beak, bill, neb

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

  • ὅταν γὰρ αἴσθηται, τοῦ κροκόδειλον καθεύδοντοσ, ἐπιβουλεύοντα τὸν ἰχνεύμονα πηλούμενον καὶ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὥσπερ ἀθλητὴν κονιόμενον ἐπεγείρει φθεγγόμενοσ καὶ κολάπτων ὁ δ’ οὕτωσ ἐξημεροῦται πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὥστε τοῦ στόματοσ διαχανὼν ἐντὸσ παρίησι, καὶ χαίρει τὰ λεπτὰ τῶν ἐνισχομένων τοῖσ ὀδοῦσι σαρκῶν ἐκλέγοντοσ ἀτρέμα τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ διασκαλεύοντοσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 31 3:1)
  • λευκὰ δὲ σημεῖα οὐ μεγάλα ἐπί τε ἄκρῳ τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ ἐπὶ ἄκρασ ἔχουσι τῆσ οὐρᾶσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a beak

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

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