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ὄρνις , ὁ, also ἡ Il.9.323, 14.290, al., freq. in Att., cf. 111 ; gen. ὄρνι_θος; acc. sg. ὄρνι_θα and ὄρνιν, neither in Hom. : pl., nom. and acc. ὄρνι_θες, -θας, but in acc. also ὄρνεις or ὄρνι_ς (S.OT966, E.Hipp.1059, Ar.Av.717, 1250, 1610, D.19.245, etc.):—also ὄρνιξ , PCair.Zen.375.1 (iii B. C.), v.l. in Ev.Luc.13.34, called Ion. and Dor. by Phot. (but ὄρνις nom. in Alcm. 26.4); acc.
A.“ὄρνι_χα” Pi.O.2.88; gen. “ὄρνι_χος” Id.I. 6(5).53: nom. pl. “ὄρνι_χες” B.5.22, Theoc.7.47; gen. pl. “ὀρνίχων” Alcm. 67, Abh.Berl.Akad.1925(5).33 (Cyrene, iv B. C.) ; dat. ὄρνιξι, ὀρνίχεσσι, Pi.P.5.112,4.190 (ὄρνιξι also in PLond.1.131r.125, al. (i A. D.)): on the gender and declens., v. Ath.9.373 sq. (Cf. ὄρν-εον, Goth.ara, gen. arins 'eagle', etc.) [In the trisyll. cases ι_ always: Hom. has ὄρνι_ς in Il.9.323,12.218, but ὄρνι^ς ib.24.219 ; and later Ep. use both ὄρνι_ς and ὄρνι^ς: in Trag. both quantities are found, ὄρνι^ς in A. Fr.304.3 (-ι^ν), S.Ant.1021, El.149 (lyr.), Fr.654, E.HF72, and so Philem.79.10 ; but “ὄρνι_ς” E.Ba.1365, and always in Ar. (Av.103, al.), for in ib.168, the words τίς ὄρνι^ς οὗτος; are borrowed from Sophocles; ὄρνι_ς is said to be Att., EM632.8.]
I. bird, including birds of prey and domestic fowls, Hom., etc.; applied to ostriches, X. An.1.2.7 : freq. added to the specific names, “ὄρνισιν ἐοικότες αἰγυπιοῖσιν” Il.7.59 ; “λάρῳ ὄρνιθι ἐοικώς” Od.5.51; ὄ. ἀηδών, πέρδιξ, S.Aj. 629,Fr.323 ; ὄ. ἁλκυών, ὄ. κύκνος, E.IT1089 (lyr.), Hel.19.
II. like οἰωνός, bird of omen, from the flight or cries of which the augur divined, Hes.Op.828 ; δεξιός, ἀριστερὸς ὄρνις, Il.13.821, Od.20.242, al. ; “χρηστηρίους ὄρνιθας” A.Th.26, cf.Ag.112,157 (both lyr.); “ὄ. αἴσιος” S.OT52, cf. Plu.Fab.19, Gal.12.314 ; “ὀρνίθων οἰωνίσματα” E.Ph. 839.
2. metaph., omen taken from the flight or cries of birds, Il.10.277, al.: generally, omen, presage, without direct reference to birds, 24.219, Pi.P.4.19 ; “ὄρνιθα δ᾽ οὐ ποιῶ σε τῆς ἐμῆς ὁδοῦ” A.Fr.95, cf. E.IA988, Ar.Pl.63, Av.719 sqq.; v. ὅδιος.
III. in Att. ὄρνις, ὁ, is mostly, cock, S.El.18 ; “κοκκυβόας ὄ.” Id.Fr.791, cf. Ar.V.815 ; ὄρνις, ἡ, hen, Men.167,168, PCair.Zen.266 (iii B. C., pl.); ἀλέκτορα καὶ ὄρνιθα τελέαν cock and hen, TAM2(1).245.8 (Lycia); in full, “ὄ. ἐνοίκιος” A.Eu.866 ; “θήλεια ὄ.” S.Fr.477 ; πότερον ὄ. ἢ ταὧς; Ar.Av.102 (with play on this signf. and signf. I) ; ὁ ὄρνιξ ὁ σιτευτός fatted fowl, PCair.Zen.375.1 ; “ὀρνίθων φοινικολόφων” Theoc.22.72, cf. 24.64, Mosch.3.49 ; “ὄ. οἰκίης” Babr.17.1 ; also, goose, Id.123.1.
IV. in pl. sts., bird-market, D.19.245 ; cf. “ὄρνεον” 11.
V. Μοισᾶν ὄρνιχες song-birds, i.e. poets, Theoc.7.47.
VI. Provs.: “διώκει παῖς ποτανὸν ὄρνιν” A.Ag. 394 (lyr.) ; “ὄ. ὥς τις ἐκ χερῶν ἄφαντος” E.Hipp.828; ὀρνίθων γάλα 'pigeon's milk', i.e. any marvellous dainty or good fortune, Ar. V.508,Av.1673, Mnesim.9, Men.936 ; but “ὄρνιθος γάλα” white of egg, Anaxag.22 ; also a plant, v. ὀρνιθόγαλον.
VII. a constellation, later Cygnus, Eudox. ap. Hipparch.1.2.16, Arat.275, Ptol.Tetr. 26.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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