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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

  • Πολλοὶ μέντοι ἤδη καὶ εὐφόρωσ ἤνεγκαν καὶ ὑγιεινῶσ τὴν κύφωσιν ἄχρι γήρωσ, μάλιστα δὲ οὗτοι, οἷσιν ἂν ἐσ τὸ εὔσαρκον καὶ πιμελῶδεσ προτράπηται τὸ σῶμα‧ ὀλίγοι μὴν ἤδη καὶ τῶν τοιούτων ὑπὲρ ἑξήκοντα ἔτη ἐβίωσαν‧ οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι βραχυβιώτεροί εἰσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 41.9)

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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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