πτερά (ptera)

πτερά is an Ancient Greek form of πτερόν, meaning “feather, wing”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 130 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.572: οὐραῖα πτερὰ ταίγε πελειάδος· ἡ δʼ ἀπόρουσεν

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 16.2: πὰρ δʼ ἴεισι τὰ πτέρα . . .

Pausanias, Description of Greece 10.5.10: … μα δὲ αὐτῷ Πτερᾶν εἶναι· κατὰ τοῦτο οὖν γενέσθαι καὶ τῷ ναῷ τοὔνομα ἀπὸ τοῦ οἰκοδομήσαντος· ἀπὸ τούτου δὲ τοῦ Πτερᾶ καὶ πόλιν Κρητικὴν προσθήκῃ γράμματος Ἀπτερεούς φασιν ὀνομάζεσθαι. τὸν γὰρ δὴ λόγον τὸν ἔχοντα ἐς τὴν ἐν τοῖς …

All forms of πτερόν (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.