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See also: έντομα

ἔντομᾰ • ‎(éntoma) n ‎(genitive ἐντόμων); second declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ ἔντομᾰ; τῶν ἐντόμων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ ἔντομᾰ
Genitive	τῶν ἐντόμων
Dative	τοῖς ἐντόμοις
Accusative	τᾰ̀ ἔντομᾰ
Vocative	ἔντομᾰ
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

ἔντομα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Short for ἔντομα ζῷα ‎(éntoma zôia).

384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 1.487a.33

Καλῶ δ' ἔντομα ὅσα ἔχει κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἐντομάς

I call "notched" all those that have notches in their body