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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τρυγών τρυγόνε τρυγόνες
Genitive τρυγόνος τρυγόνοιν τρυγόνων
Dative τρυγόνι τρυγόνοιν τρυγόσιν*
Accusative τρυγόνα τρυγόνε τρυγόνας
Vocative τρυγών τρυγόνε τρυγόνες

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

  • ἐκ τούτου περιστεραὶ καὶ φάσσαι καὶ τρυγόνεσ καθ’ ὅλην ἐξίπταντο τὴν ὁδόν, λημνίσκοισ τοὺσ πόδασ δεδεμέναι πρὸσ τὸ ῥᾳδίωσ ὑπὸ τῶν θεωμένων ἁρπάζεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 312)
  • ἄλλα δ’ ἐσθίειν περιεφέρετο πολλὰ καὶ ποικίλα, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἀργυροῦσ πίναξ ἕτεροσ, ἐφ’ ᾧ πάλιν ἄρτοσ μέγασ καὶ χῆνεσ καὶ λαγωοὶ καὶ ἔριφοι καὶ ἕτεροι ἄρτοι πεπονημένοι καὶ περιστεραὶ καὶ τρυγόνεσ πέρδικέσ τε καὶ ὅσον ἄλλο πτηνῶν πλῆθοσ ἦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 2 1:2)
  • ἐστὶ δ’ ἡ ματτύα φάτται, χῆνεσ, τρυγόνεσ, κίχλαι, κόσσυφοι, λαγῴ, ἄρνεσ, ἔριφοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 19 4:1)
  • τρυγόνεσ τ’ ὀπισθόκεντροι καὶ μάλ’ ἁδροὶ κωβιοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 83 2:1)
  • παύσασθ’ ὦ δύστανοι, ἀνάνυτα κωτίλλοισαι τρυγόνεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 112)

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

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