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τανύπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τανύπτερος τανύπτερον

Structure: τανυπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: shorter form of tanusi/pteros, Hes., Pind.

Sense

Examples

  • ἐν ἄλλοισ δέ φησιν αἰεὶ μ’, ὦ φίλε θυμέ, ὁ τανύπτεροσ ὡσ ὅκα πορφυρίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 40 3:2)
  • θάρσοσ δὲ τανύπτεροσ ἐν ὄρνιξιν αἰετὸσ ἔπλετο· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 5 25:4)

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

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