φωλιά (pholiá)
English: nest
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Linguistic Information
Word Typenoun
Genderfeminine
Casenominative
NumberSingular
About φωλιά
As a noun, φωλιά is of the feminine gender and is in the nominative case in Greek grammar. It can help you understand sentence structure and word forms better.
Pronunciation
IPA: foˈʎa
Hyphenation: φω‧λιά
Definitions & Examples
- noun:nest (a structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young)
- noun:nest (a place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young)
- noun:animal's home: burrow (rabbit), den (lion, tiger, wolf, etc), drey (squirrel), earth (fox), eyrie (eagle), form (hare), hive (bee), holt (otter), lair (tiger), lodge (beaver), rookery (rook), sett (badger), vespiary (wasp), warren (rabbit)
- noun:(figuratively) hideout
- noun:(figuratively) den
Declension Table
feminine noun
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | φωλιά | φωλιές |
| genitive | φωλιάς | φωλιών |
| accusative | φωλιά | φωλιές |
| vocative | φωλιά | φωλιές |
Greek nouns and adjectives change form based on case (role in sentence) and number. These forms show how φωλιά appears in different grammatical contexts.
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Derived Terms
- αλεποφωλιά (alepofoliá)"Grek"
- φωλιάζω (foliázo)"Grek"
- φωλίτσα (folítsa)"ib-brac qualifier-brac"