ὄρνιθος (ornithos)

ὄρνιθος is an Ancient Greek form of ὄρνις, meaning “bird”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1087: ἀκταίης ὄρνιθος ἐναίσιμον ὄσσαν ἀκούσας.

Plutarch, Aratus 20.2: … οὖν ὅπου συνετέτακτο, τὸν Ἐργῖνον ὡς ἀφιξόμενον μετὰ τὸν Διοκλέους ἀνέμενε πρὸ τῆς πόλεως πρὸ τοῦ καλουμένου Ὄρνιθος, ἐν δὲ τούτῳ πρῶτος ἀδελφὸς Ἐργίνου καὶ Διοκλέους ὄνομα Διονύσιος οὐ συνειδὼς τὴν πρᾶξιν οὐδὲ κοινωνῶν, ὅμοιο …

Aristophanes, Acharnians 589: ὄρνιθός ἐστιν; ἆρα κομπολακύθου;

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.