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πτηνόν (ptenon)

πτηνόν is an Ancient Greek form of πτηνός, meaning “winged, flying; bird”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.74: … οὖν ἐκεῖνο εἶχε, καὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν δεῖν ἔχειν. θεοὺς μὲν οὖν ἔχειν τὸ πολὺ πυρίνους· εἶναι δὲ τρία γένη τἆλλα, πτηνόν, ἔνυδρον, πεζόν.

Euripides, Medea 1297: ἢ πτηνὸν ἆραι σῶμ’ ἐς αἰθέρος βάθος,

All forms of πτηνός (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.