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πτηνό

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Greek

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek πτηνός (ptēnós, flying, winged creature, bird), from πέτομαι (pétomai), itself from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂eti (to fly) from the root *peth₂- (literally to spread one’s wings).
Beware Slavic false cognates such as Bulgarian пти́ца (ptíca), Macedonian птица (ptica), Russian пти́ца (ptíca), Serbo-Croatian пти̏ца/ptȉca, Ukrainian пти́ця (ptýcja), all meaning bird from Proto-Slavic *pъtica. True cognates are Old English feþer (English feather), Latin petō, Russian перо́ (peró), Sanskrit पतति (pátati), Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (pataiti), Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).

Noun

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πτηνό (ptinón (plural πτηνά)

  1. bird

Declension

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Declension of πτηνό
singular plural
nominative πτηνό (ptinó) πτηνά (ptiná)
genitive πτηνού (ptinoú) πτηνών (ptinón)
accusative πτηνό (ptinó) πτηνά (ptiná)
vocative πτηνό (ptinó) πτηνά (ptiná)

Synonyms

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Further reading

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