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αἰετός (aietos)

αἰετός is an Ancient Greek form of ἀετός, meaning “eagle”. It is the nominative singular masculine noun.

Found 46 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 13.24: αἰετὸς ἐς μέγα λαῖτμα· ἀφʼ οὗ τότε χοιράδες ἔσταν.

Aristophanes, Birds 1181: κερχνῂς τριόρχης γὺψ κύμινδις αἰετός·

Greek Anthology, Greek Anthology, Ἀνθολογία, Volume III 9.19.1: ὁ πρὶν ἀελλοπόδων λάμψας πλέον Αἰετὸς ἵππων,

All forms of ἀετός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.