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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

  • ἡ δὲ ἑτέρα καλουμένη Ὠκυπέτη, ὡσ δὲ ἔνιοι Ὠκυθόη Ἡσίοδοσ δὲ λέγει αὐτὴν Ὠκυπόδην, αὕτη κατὰ τὴν Προποντίδα φεύγουσα μέχρισ Ἐχινάδων ἦλθε νήσων, αἳ νῦν ἀπ’ ἐκείνησ Στροφάδεσ καλοῦνται· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 21:12)

Related

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

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