λευκερῳδιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λευκός (leukós, “white”) +‎ ἐρῳδιός (erōidiós, “heron”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /leu̯.ke.rɔːi̯.di.ós/ → /leɸ.ce.ro.ðiˈos/ → /lef.ce.ro.ðiˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /leu̯.ke.rɔːi̯.di.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /lew.ke.ro.diˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /leɸ.ce.ro.ðiˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /lef.ce.ro.ðiˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /lef.ce.ro.ðiˈos/

Noun

λευκερῳδῐός • (leukerōidiós) m (genitive λευκερῳδῐοῦ); second declension

1. A white, heron-like bird, likely either the Eurasian spoonbill, Platalea leucorodia, or the great egret, Ardea alba.

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ λευκερῳδῐός; τοῦ λευκερῳδῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ λευκερῳδῐός ho leukerōidiós	τὼ λευκερῳδῐώ tṑ leukerōidiṓ	οἱ λευκερῳδῐοί hoi leukerōidioí
Genitive	τοῦ λευκερῳδῐοῦ toû leukerōidioû	τοῖν λευκερῳδῐοῖν toîn leukerōidioîn	τῶν λευκερῳδῐῶν tôn leukerōidiôn
Dative	τῷ λευκερῳδῐῷ tôi leukerōidiôi	τοῖν λευκερῳδῐοῖν toîn leukerōidioîn	τοῖς λευκερῳδῐοῖς toîs leukerōidioîs
Accusative	τὸν λευκερῳδῐόν tòn leukerōidión	τὼ λευκερῳδῐώ tṑ leukerōidiṓ	τοὺς λευκερῳδῐούς toùs leukerōidioús
Vocative	λευκερῳδῐέ leukerōidié	λευκερῳδῐώ leukerōidiṓ	λευκερῳδῐοί leukerōidioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Translingual: Platalea leucorodia

Further reading

• “λευκερῳδιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• λευκερῳδιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette