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ὕστριξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕστριξ ὕστριχος

Structure: ὑστριχ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the porcupine

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

  • κατὰ τοὺσ νομάδασ δὲ ἐστὶ τούτων οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ ἄλλα τοιάδε, πύγαργοι καὶ ζορκάδεσ καὶ βουβάλιεσ καὶ ὄνοι, οὐκ οἱ τὰ κέρεα ἔχοντεσ ἀλλ’ ἄλλοι ἄποτοι οὐ γὰρ δὴ πίνουσι, καὶ ὄρυεσ, τῶν τὰ κέρεα τοῖσι φοίνιξι οἱ πήχεεσ ποιεῦνται μέγαθοσ δὲ τὸ θηρίον τοῦτο κατὰ βοῦν ἐστι, καὶ βασσάρια καὶ ὑαίναι καὶ ὕστριχεσ καὶ κριοὶ ἄγριοι καὶ δίκτυεσ καὶ θῶεσ καὶ πάνθηρεσ καὶ βόρυεσ, καὶ κροκόδειλοι ὅσον τε τριπήχεεσ χερσαῖοι, τῇσι σαύρῃσι ἐμφερέστατοι, καὶ στρουθοὶ κατάγαιοι, καὶ ὄφιεσ μικροί, κέρασ ἓν ἕκαστοσ ἔχοντεσ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 192 1:1)

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

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