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χελιδών

Third declension Noun; Feminine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χελιδών χελιδόνος

Structure: χελιδων (Stem)

Sense

  1. the swallow
  2. the frog in a horse's foot

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

  • μὰ τὸν Δί’ οὐχ οὗτόσ γε παραδοῦναι λέγει, εἰ μὴ βαδίζειν ωἅσπερ αἱ χελιδόσιν λέγει. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 3:30)
  • οὐκοῦν παραδοῦναι ταῖσ χελιδόσιν λέγει. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 3:31)
  • ἶρισ δ’ ἐν ῥίζῃσιν ἀγαλλίασ ἥ θ’ ὑακίνθῳ αἰαστῇ προσέοικε, χελιδονίοισι δὲ τέλλει ἄνθεσιν, ἰσοδρομεῦσα χελιδόσιν, αἵ τ’ ἀνὰ κόλπῳ φυλλάδα νηλείην ἐκχεύετον,9 ἀρτίγονοι δὲ εἴδοντ’ ἠμύουσαι ἀεὶ κάλυκεσ στομίοισιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the swallow

  2. the frog in a horse's foot

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