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κύφων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύφων κύφωνος

Structure: κυφων (Stem)

Etym.: ku_fo/s

Sense

  1. the bent yoke of the plough
  2. a sort of pillory in which criminals were fastened by the neck
  3. one who has had his neck in the pillory, a knave

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύφων κύφωνε κύφωνες
Genitive κύφωνος κυφώνοιν κυφώνων
Dative κύφωνι κυφώνοιν κύφωσιν*
Accusative κύφωνα κύφωνε κύφωνας
Vocative κύφων κύφωνε κύφωνες

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

  • ἔνθα δή, ὦ φιλότησ, πολλὰ καὶ ἐλεεινὰ ἦν καὶ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν μαστίγων τε γὰρ ὁμοῦ ψόφοσ ἠκούετο καὶ οἰμωγὴ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ ὀπτωμένων καὶ στρέβλαι καὶ κύφωνεσ καὶ τροχοί, καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα ἐσπάραττεν καὶ ὁ Κέρβεροσ ἐδάρδαπτεν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:2)
  • ὦ τύμπανα καὶ κύφωνεσ οὐκ ἀρήξετε; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 3:7)

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

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