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ὠκύπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠκύπτερος ὠκύπτερον

Structure: ὠκυπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. swift-winged
  2. the long quill-feathers in a wing

Examples

  • ὅτι δὲ καὶ τιθασοὺσ εἶχον αὐτοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ οἰκίαισ Στράττισ παρίστησιν ἐν Παυσανίᾳ διὰ τούτων πολλῶν φλυάρων καὶ ταὧν ἀντάξια, οὓσ βόσκεθ’ ὑμεῖσ ἕνεκα τῶν ὠκυπτέρων, Ἀναξανδρίδησ ἐν Μελιλώτῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 70 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. swift-winged

  2. the long quill-feathers in a wing

Related

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

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