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χηναλώπηξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηναλώπηξ χηναλώπεκος

Structure: χηναλωπεκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the fox-goose, vulpanser

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

  • νομίζουσι δὲ καὶ τῶν ἰχθύων τὸν καλεύμενον λεπιδωτὸν ἱρὸν εἶναι καὶ τὴν ἔγχελυν, ἱροὺσ δὲ τούτουσ τοῦ Νείλου φασὶ εἶναι, καὶ τῶν ὀρνίθων τοὺσ χηναλώπεκασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 72 2:2)

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

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