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χελιδόνιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χελιδόνιος

Structure: χελιδονι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xeli_dw/n

Sense

  1. of the swallow, like the swallow, coloured like the swallow's throat, reddish-brown, russet

Examples

  • καλοῦνται δέ τινεσ καὶ χελιδονίαι λαγωοί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 63 3:4)
  • εἶθ’ Ιἑρὰ ἄκρα καὶ αἱ Χελιδόνιαι τρεῖσ νῆσοι τραχεῖαι, πάρισοι τὸ μέγεθοσ, ὅσον πέντε σταδίοισ ἀλλήλων διέχουσαι· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 3 16:1)
  • δοκοῦσι δὲ αἱ Χελιδόνιαι κατὰ Κάνωβόν πωσ πίπτειν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 3 16:6)

Related

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

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