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ὠτίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠτίς ὠτίδος

Structure: ὠτιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ou)=s

Sense

  1. a, bustard with long earfeathers, the great bustard

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

  • ἀληθῆ λέγειν φησὶ τὸν Ξενοφῶντα ὁ Πλούταρχοσ περὶ τῶν ὠτίδων φέρεσθαι γὰρ πάμπολλα τὰ ζῷα ταῦτα εἰσ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἀπὸ τῆσ παρακειμένησ Λιβύησ, τῆσ θήρασ αὐτῶν τοιαύτησ γινομένησ, μιμητικὸν δέ ἐστι τὸ ζῷον τοῦτο, ὁ ὦτοσ, μάλιστα ὧν ἂν ἴδῃ ποιοῦντα ἄνθρωπον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 43 4:1)
  • ἆρ’ οὖν ἄξιόν ἐστι ταύταισ ταῖσ κοινωνίαισ καὶ συμπεριφοραῖσ παραβάλλειν ἅσπερ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ φιλίασ ἀλωπέκων καὶ ὄφεων διὰ τὸ κοινὸν αὐτοῖσ πολέμιον εἶναι τὸν ἀετόν, ἢ τὰσ ὠτίδων πρὸσ ἵππουσ, ὅτι χαίρουσι προσπελάζουσαι καὶ διασκάλλουσαι τὸν ὄνθον; (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 31 12:1)

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

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