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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

  • ἣ δ’ ὠκεῖαν τέκεν Ἶριν ἠυκόμουσ θ’ Ἁρπυίασ Αἐλλώ τ’ Ὠκυπέτην τε, αἵ ῥ’ ἀνέμων πνοιῇσι καὶ οἰωνοῖσ ἅμ’ ἕπονται ὠκείῃσ πτερύγεσσι· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 28:4)
  • οἱ δὲ <ἐκ> Γοργόνοσ Αἰγύπτῳ γενόμενοι ἐκληρώσαντο περὶ τῶν ἐκ Πιερίασ, καὶ λαγχάνει Περίφασ μὲν Ἀκταίην, Οἰνεὺσ δὲ Ποδάρκην, Αἴγυπτοσ Διωξίππην, Μενάλκησ Ἀδίτην, Λάμποσ Ὠκυπέτην, Ἴδμων Πυλάργην. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 1 5:13)

Related

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

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