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φιλοκύων?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: philokyōn

Principal Part: φιλοκύων φιλοκυνος

Structure: φιλοκυων (Stem)

Sense

  1. fond of dogs

Declension

Third declension

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

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

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