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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

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

  • οὐδ’ ἄρα φίλιπποί εἰσιν οὓσ ἂν οἱ ἵπποι μὴ ἀντιφιλῶσιν, οὐδὲ φιλόρτυγεσ, οὐδ’ αὖ φιλόκυνέσ γε καὶ φίλοινοι καὶ φιλογυμνασταὶ καὶ φιλόσοφοι, ἂν μὴ ἡ σοφία αὐτοὺσ ἀντιφιλῇ. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 131:7)
  • 20 ε οὐδ’ ἄρα φίλιπποί εἰσιν οὓσ ἂν οἱ ἵπποι μὴ ἀντιφιλῶσιν, οὐδὲ φιλόρτυγεσ, οὐδ’ αὖ φιλόκυνέσ γε καὶ φίλοινοι καὶ φιλογυμνασταὶ καὶ φιλόσοφοι, ἂν μὴ ἡ σοφία αὐτοὺσ ἀντιφιλῇ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 198)

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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