ὀρνίθων (ornithon)

ὀρνίθων is an Ancient Greek form of ὄρνις, meaning “bird”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 128 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.50.2: τεκμήριον δέ· τῶν μὲν τοιούτων ὀρνίθων ἐπίλειψις σαφὴς ἐγένετο, καὶ οὐχ ἑωρῶντο οὔτε ἄλλως οὔτε περὶ τοιοῦτον οὐδέν· οἱ δὲ κύνες μᾶλλον αἴσθησιν παρεῖχον τοῦ ἀποβαίνοντος διὰ τὸ ξυνδιαιτᾶσθαι.

Strabo, Geography 16.2.24: … ων καὶ τῶν βιβλίων. διέχει δὲ τῆς Σιδῶνος ἡ Τύρος οὐ πλείους τῶν διακοσίων σταδίων· ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ πολίχνιον Ὀρνίθων πόλις λεγομένη· εἶτα πρὸς Τύρῳ ποταμὸς ἐξίησι· μετὰ δὲ τὴν Τύρον ἡ Παλαίτυρος ἐν τριάκοντα σταδίοις.

All forms of ὄρνις (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.