ἀλεκτρυόνος (alektryonos)

ἀλεκτρυόνος is an Ancient Greek form of Ἀλεκτρυών, meaning “Alektryon — A comic poet, whose comedy, entitled Χενίζων, is referred to by Athenaeus”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.34: … δὲ τῶν ἡρώων φησὶν εἶναι τὰ πίπτοντα, λέγων ἐν τοῖς Ἥρωσι, μηδὲ γεύεσθʼ ἅττʼ ἂν ἐντὸς τῆς τραπέζης καταπέσῃ· Ἀλεκτρυόνος μὴ ἅπτεσθαι λευκοῦ, ὅτι ἱερὸς τοῦ Μηνὸς καὶ ἱκέτης· τὸ δʼ ἦν τῶν ἀγαθῶν· τῷ τε Μηνὶ ἱερός· σημαίνει γὰρ τὰς ὥ …

Plutarch, De Invidia et Odio 3: … γίγνεται καὶ πρὸς ἄλογα ζῷα· καὶ γὰρ γαλᾶς καὶ κανθαρίδας ἔνιοι μισοῦσι καὶ φρύνους καὶ ὄφεις· Γερμανικὸς δʼ ἀλεκτρυόνος οὔτε φωνὴν οὔτʼ ὄψιν ὑπέμενεν οἱ δὲ Περσῶν μάγοι τοὺς μῦς ἀπεκτίννυσαν, ὡς αὐτοί τε μισοῦντες καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ δυ …

All forms of Ἀλεκτρυών (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.