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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

  • Ἄγε, ὦ Γανύμηδεσ ‐ ἥκομεν γὰρ ἔνθα ἐχρῆν ‐ φίλησόν με ἤδη, ὅπωσ εἰδῇσ οὐκέτι ῥάμφοσ ἀγκύλον ἔχοντα οὐδ̓ ὄνυχασ ὀξεῖσ οὐδὲ πτερά, οἱο͂σ ἐφαινόμην σοι πτηνὸσ εἶναι δοκῶν. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:1)
  • τὸ ῥάμφοσ ἡμῖν σου γέλοιον φαίνεται. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 3:16)
  • αἱ δὲ νῦν μόνον τὰ πτερὰ ἔχουσιν ἐκείνησ καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ καὶ τὸ ῥάμφοσ, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα ἀφρονέστεραί εἰσι τῶν ἄλλων ὀρνέων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 26:3)

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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