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κολυμβίς

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Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.

Valerius Maximus, De Factis Dictisque
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Transliteration A: kolymbís Transliteration B: kolymbis Transliteration C: kolymvis Beta Code: kolumbi/s

English (LSJ)

-ίδος, ἡ, diver, name of a bird, prob. grebe, Podiceps minor, Ar.Av.304, Arist.HA593b17, Alex.Mynd. ap. Ath.9.395d; cf. κολυμβάς II.1: as adjective, κ. αἴθυιαι Arat.296.

German (Pape)

[Seite 1476] ίδος, ἡ, = κολυμβάς, eine Entenart; Ar. Av. 306, vgl. Ath. IX, 395 d; Arist. H. A. 8, 3.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ίδος (ἡ) :
plongeon, oiseau.
Étymologie: κόλυμβος.

Dutch (Woordenboekgrieks.nl)

κολυμβίς -ίδος, ἡ [κόλυμβος] fuut (watervogel).

Russian (Dvoretsky)

κολυμβίς: ίδος ἡ предполож. птица нырок Arph., Arst.

Greek Monolingual

κολυμβίς, -ίδος, ἡ (Α) κόλυμβος
1. κολυμβήτρια
2. είδος πτηνού, πιθ. η άγρια πάπια.

Greek Monotonic

κολυμβίς: -ίδος, ἡ, θαλασσοπούλι, «γλαροπούλι», σε Αριστοφ.

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

κολυμβίς: -ίδος, ἡ, κολυμβῶσα, ὄνομα πτηνοῦ τινος δυτικοῦ, ἴσως ἡ ἀγρία νῆσσα, Ἀριστοφ. Ὄρν. 304, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 8. 3, 15· πρβλ. κολυμβὰς ΙΙ. 1· ― ὡς ἐπίθ., κ. αἴθυιαι Ἄρατ. 296.

Middle Liddell

κολυμβίς, ίδος
a sea-bird, a diver, Ar. [from κόλυμβος

English (Woodhouse)

diver bird

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