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φιλοκύων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοκύων φιλοκυνος

Structure: φιλοκυων (Stem)

Sense

  1. fond of dogs

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φιλοκύων φιλοκύνε φιλοκύνες
Genitive φιλοκύνος φιλοκύνοιν φιλοκύνων
Dative φιλοκύνι φιλοκύνοιν φιλοκῦσιν*
Accusative φιλοκύνα φιλοκύνε φιλοκύνας
Vocative φιλοκύων φιλοκύνε φιλοκύνες

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἠρίστευσαν Ποσειδώνιόσ τε καὶ Φιλοκύων καὶ Ἀμομφάρετοσ ὁ Σπαρτιήτησ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 71 3:3)
  • ἔνθα μὲν τοὺσ ἰρένασ ἔθαψαν, τῶν καὶ Ποσειδώνιοσ καὶ Ἀμομφάρετοσ ἦσαν καὶ Φιλοκύων τε καὶ Καλλικράτησ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 85 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. fond of dogs

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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