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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ἢν δὲ ἐσθῆτα φλοί̈νην παχεῖαν πλέξωνται, τὰ ῥάμφη τῶν Στυμφαλίδων ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ ἔχεται τῆσ φλοί̈νησ, καθὰ καὶ πτέρυγεσ ὀρνίθων τῶν μικρῶν προσέχονται τῷ ἰξῷ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 8:2)

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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