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κυναγωγός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυναγωγός κυναγωγοῦ

Structure: κυναγωγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gw

Sense

  1. a leader of hounds, huntsman

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυναγωγός κυναγωγώ κυναγωγοί
Genitive κυναγωγοῦ κυναγωγοῖν κυναγωγῶν
Dative κυναγωγῷ κυναγωγοῖν κυναγωγοῖς
Accusative κυναγωγόν κυναγωγώ κυναγωγούς
Vocative κυναγωγέ κυναγωγώ κυναγωγοί

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

  • ἀλλὰ χρὴ ἀποσκιρτήσασαν τὴν κύνα καὶ περιδραμοῦσαν ἐπανιέναι ἐπὶ τὸν κυναγωγόν, εἰ καὶ μὴ καλοίη αὐτήν, σημαίνουσαν ὅτι οἱά τε ὑπακούειν, εἰ δὴ ἐθέλει· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 7 5:1)
  • καὶ τοίνυν εἴ ποτε διαφύγοι αὐτὴν τελεωθεῖσαν ἤδη ὁ λαγώσ, οὐκ ἀτρέμα ἔχει ἑαυτὴν οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τὸν κυναγωγὸν ἐπάνεισιν οὐδὲ ἀνακαλοῦντοσ ὑπακούει, ἀλλ̓ ὑπὸ μελέτησ τοῦ θεῖν ἐπὶ μηδενὶ εἰδῇ πλάζεται, καὶ μαινομένῃ ἐοίκεν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 25 6:1)
  • ὅπου δ’ ἂν ὦσιν, ἔχοντα τὸν κυναγωγὸν τὰσ κύνασ καὶ ἀκόντια πρὸ ἡμέρασ ἐλθόντα εἰσ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον τὰσ μὲν κύνασ δῆσαι ἄπωθεν ἐκ τῆσ ὕλησ, ὅπωσ μή, ἂν ἴδωσι τὰσ ἐλάφουσ, ὑλακτῶσιν, αὐτὸν δὲ σκοπιωρεῖσθαι. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a leader of hounds

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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