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ἀλεκτρυών
ἀλεκτρυών
See also: Ἀλεκτρυών
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Mycenaean: 𐀀𐀨𐀓𐀶𐀬𐀺 (a-ra-ku-tu-ru-wo, /Alektruōn/)
Noun
ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών • (alektruṓn) m, f (genitive ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνος); third declension
- (masculine) a male chicken: cock, rooster
- (feminine) a female chicken: hen
- guinea fowl
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών | τὼ ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνε | οἱ, αἱ ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνος | τοῖν ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνοιν | τῶν ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνῐ | τοῖν ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνοιν | τοῖς, ταῖς ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνᾰ | τὼ ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνε | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ᾰ̓λεκτρῠών | ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνε | ᾰ̓λεκτρῠόνες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Related terms
- ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr)
- ἱππαλεκτρυών (hippalektruṓn)
Derived terms
Terms derived from ἀλεκτρυών (alektruṓn)
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References
- ἀλεκτρυών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀλεκτρυών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἀλεκτρυών» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «ἀλεκτρυών» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἀλεκτρυών”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 64