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πτερύγων (pterygon)

πτερύγων is an Ancient Greek form of πτέρυξ, meaning “wing”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.122: πωτῶνται πτερύγων πειρώμενοι ὄζον ἀπʼ ὄζω.

All forms of πτέρυξ (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.