A.able to fly, full-fledged, of young birds, “πάρος πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι” Od.16.218; of birds generally, able to fly, winged, “πετηνῶν . . ὑπ᾽ οἰωνῶν” A.Th.1025 ; “πετηνοῖς γυψί” E.Rh.515 ; also “π. ἵππος” Men.Pk. 342 : abs., πετεηνά winged fowl, “αἰετὸς . . τελειότατος πετεηνῶν” Il.8.247, al. ; πετεινόν a bird, Thgn.1097 ; τὰ πετεινά (with v.l. πετηνά) Hdt.1.140, 2.123, 3.106, Lycurg.132.—Thom.Mag.p.272 R. rejects the form πετεινός : Πετηνή is the name of an Att.ship in IG22.1611.138.
πετεινός , ή, όν, also πετηνός (v. fin.), and πτηνός (v. sub voc.), Ep. and poet. πετεηνός (also πετεεινός AP9.337（Leon.), 363.22 (Mel.)):—
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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