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τρυγών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρυγών τρυγόνος

Structure: τρυγων (Stem)

Etym.: From tru/zw

Sense

  1. the turtle-dove

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

  • εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ. λάβε μοι δάμαλιν τριετίζουσαν καὶ αἶγα τριετίζουσαν καὶ κριὸν τριετίζοντα καὶ τρυγόνα καὶ περιστεράν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 15:9)
  • καὶ ὅταν ἀναπληρωθῶσιν αἱ ἡμέραι καθάρσεωσ αὐτῆσ ἐφ̓ υἱῷ ἢ ἐπὶ θυγατρί, προσοίσει ἀμνὸν ἐνιαύσιον ἄμωμον, εἰσ ὁλοκαύτωμα, καὶ νεοσσὸν περιστερᾶσ ἢ τρυγόνα περὶ ἁμαρτίασ ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν τῆσ σκηνῆσ τοῦ μαρτυρίου πρὸσ τὸν ἱερέα, (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 12:6)
  • ἀφύασ δὲ λεπτὰσ τάσδε καὶ τὴν τρυγόνα χωρὶσ Θεανοῖ δεῦρ’ ἔθηκ’ ἀντιρρόπουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 21 4:4)
  • πυραλλίδα, περιστεράν, τρυγόνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 50 4:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Μύνδιοσ Ἀλέξανδροσ οὐ πίνειν φησὶ τὴν φάσσαν ἀνακύπτουσαν ὡσ τὴν τρυγόνα καὶ τοῦ χειμῶνοσ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι, εἰ μὴ εὐδίασ γενομένησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 511)

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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