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ταχύπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταχύπτερος ταχύπτερον

Structure: ταχυπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. swift-winged

Examples

  • ὦ δῖοσ αἰθὴρ καὶ ταχύπτεροι πνοαί, ποταμῶν τε πηγαί, ποντίων τε κυμάτων ἀνήριθμον γέλασμα, παμμῆτόρ τε γῆ, καὶ τὸν πανόπτην κύκλον ἡλίου καλῶ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. swift-winged

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

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