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ὠκυπέτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκυπέτης ὠκυπέτου

Structure: ὠκυπετ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: pe/tomai

Sense

  1. swift-flying, swift-running

Declension

First 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

  • ὁ πρὶν ἀελλοπόδων λάμψασ πλέον Αἰετὸσ ἵππων, ὁ πρὶν ὑπαὶ μίτραισ κῶλα καθαψάμενοσ, ὃν Φοίβου χρησμῳδὸσ ἀέθλιον ἔστεφε Πυθώ, ὀρνύμενον πτανοῖσ ὠκυπέταισ ἴκελον, καὶ Νεμέη βλοσυροῖο τιθηνήτειρα λέοντοσ, Πῖσά τε, καὶ δοιὰσ ᾐόνασ Ἰσθμὸσ ἔχων, νῦν κλοιῷ δειρὴν πεπεδημένοσ, οἱᾶ χαλινῷ, καρπὸν ἐλᾷ Δηοῦσ ὀκριόεντι λίθῳ, ἴσαν μοῖραν ἔχων Ἡρακλέι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 191)

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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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