πετεινά (peteina)

πετεινά is an Ancient Greek form of πετεινός, meaning “flying; bird”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

New Testament, Matthew 6.26: ἐμβλέψατε εἰς τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ὅτι οὐ σπείρουσιν οὐδὲ θερίζουσιν οὐδὲ συνάγουσιν εἰς ἀποθήκας, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος τρέφει αὐτά· οὐχ ὑμεῖς μᾶλλον διαφέρετε αὐτῶν;

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 1.1·2: … περιφέρεσθαι τὰ ἡμέτερα. τῇ πέμπτῃ δ’ αὖθις τόν ἡμερῶν θεοῦ κελεύσαντος ἀνῆκε τὰ ὕδατα ἑρπετὰ ψυχῶν ζωσῶν καὶ πετεινά· ὣν τὰ μὲν ἐμφιλοχωροῦσι τοῖς ὕδασι καὶ τούτοις ἐννήχονται, τὰ πετεινὰ δὲ τὸν ἀέρα τέμνουσιν ἕρποντα ὥσπερ δι …

All forms of πετεινός (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.