ἀλκυονίς

• ᾰ̔λκυονῐ́ς (hălkuonĭ́s) — Attic

From ᾰ̓λκῠών (ălkŭṓn) +‎ -ῐς (-ĭs).

ᾰ̓λκῠονῐ́ς • (ălkŭonĭ́s) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓λκῠονῐ́); third declension

1. (of days) halcyon (pertaining to days during the winter when storms do not occur)

ᾰ̓λκῠονῐ́ς • (ălkŭonĭ́s) f (genitive ἀλκῠονῐ́δος); third declension

1. kingfisher; halcyon
   • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1085:

     ἡ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ὑπὲρ ξανθοῖο καρήατος Αἰσονίδαο πωτᾶτ᾽ ἀλκυονὶς λιγυρῇ ὀπὶ θεσπίζουσα λῆξιν ὀρινομένων ἀνέμων

     hē d’ ár’ hupèr xanthoîo karḗatos Aisonídao pōtât’ alkuonìs ligurēî opì thespízousa lêxin orinoménōn anémōn

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2. (chiefly in the plural) halcyon days

• Greek: αλκυονίδα (alkyonída)

• “ἀλκυονίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἀλκυονίδες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀλκυονίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀλκυονίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• ἀλκυονίς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011