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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

  • ἔχουσι δὲ οἱ ἄρρενεσ σιμά τε καὶ ἐλάττονα τῇ συμμετρίᾳ τὰ ῥύγχη, ἡ δὲ μικρὰ κολυμβίσ, πάντων ἐλαχίστη τῶν ἐνύδρων, ῥυπαρομέλαινα τὴν χροιὰν καὶ τὸ ῥύγχοσ ὀξὺ ἔχει σκέπον τε τὰ ὄμματα, τὰ δὲ πολλὰ καταδύεται, ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄλλο γένοσ βοσκάδων μεῖζον μὲν νήττησ, ἔλαττον δὲ χηναλώπεκοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 52 1:2)
  • ἐσ δὲ τοὺσ ὄχθουσ τοῦ προσώπου, κλημάτων τὴν σποδιὴν ξύν τινι θηρίων στέατι μίσγοντα χρίειν, λέοντοσ, ἢ παρδάλιοσ, ἢ ἄρκτου, ἢν δὲ μὴ, χηναλώπεκοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 114)

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

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