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τραυλός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τραυλός τραυλή τραυλόν

Structure: τραυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from the sound.

Sense

  1. lisping
  2. twittering

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative τραυλός τραυλή τραυλόν
Genitive τραυλοῦ τραυλῆς τραυλοῦ
Dative τραυλῷ τραυλῇ τραυλῷ
Accusative τραυλόν τραυλήν τραυλόν
Vocative τραυλέ τραυλή τραυλόν
DualN/A/V τραυλώ τραυλᾱ́ τραυλώ
G/D τραυλοῖν τραυλαῖν τραυλοῖν
PluralNominative τραυλοί τραυλαί τραυλά
Genitive τραυλῶν τραυλῶν τραυλῶν
Dative τραυλοῖς τραυλαῖς τραυλοῖς
Accusative τραυλούς τραυλᾱ́ς τραυλά
Vocative τραυλοί τραυλαί τραυλά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective τραυλός τραυλοῦ τραυλότερος τραυλοτεροῦ τραυλότατος τραυλοτατοῦ
Adverb τραυλώς τραυλότερον τραυλότατα

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

  • "ὥσπερ οὖν τὸ κινοῦν τὸ πεζὸν οὐ δύναται κινῆσαι πτητικῶσ, οὐδὲ τορῶσ τὸ τραυλὸν οὐδ’ εὐφώνωσ τὸ ἰσχνόφωνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Βάττον, οἶμαι, διὰ τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ τὴν φωνὴν παραγενόμενον εἰσ Λιβύην ἔπεμψεν οἰκιστήν, ὅτι τραυλὸσ μὲν ἦν καὶ ἰσχνόφωνοσ βασιλικὸσ δὲ καὶ πολιτικὸσ καὶ φρόνιμοσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 228)
  • πορδὴ καὶ σῴζει τραυλὸν ἱεῖσα μέλοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 3952)

Synonyms

  1. twittering

Similar forms

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

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