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κυνάμυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνάμυια

Structure: κυναμυι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. dog-fly, shameless fly

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυνάμυια κυναμυίᾱ κυνάμυιαι
Genitive κυναμυίᾱς κυναμυίαιν κυναμυιῶν
Dative κυναμυίᾱͅ κυναμυίαιν κυναμυίαις
Accusative κυναμυίᾱν κυναμυίᾱ κυναμυίᾱς
Vocative κυναμυίᾱ κυναμυίᾱ κυνάμυιαι

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

  • "̓ γέλωτοσ οὖν ἐπιρραγέντοσ παρῆν ἡ θεατροτορύνη Μέλισσα καὶ ἡ κυνάμυια Νίκιον αὗται δ’ ἦσαν τῶν οὐκ ἀσήμων ἑταιρίδων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4522)
  • καὶ ὁ Οὐλπιανὸσ ἀλλ’ ἐμοὶ μέν, ἔφη, ὦ κυνάμυια, μελιπήκτων ἅλισ, ἡδέωσ δ’ ἂν χόνδρου φάγοιμι τῶν ὀστρακίδων ἢ τῶν κοκκάλων ἀφθόνωσ ἔχοντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 100 1:3)
  • τίπτ’ αὖτ’ ὦ κυνάμυια θεοὺσ ἔριδι ξυνελαύνεισ θάρσοσ ἀήτον ἔχουσα, μέγασ δέ σε θυμὸσ ἀνῆκεν; (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 32:8)
  • ὢ πόποι αἰγιόχοιο Διὸσ τέκοσ Ἀτρυτώνη καὶ δ’ αὖθ’ ἡ κυνάμυια ἄγει βροτολοιγὸν Ἄρηα δηί̈ου ἐκ πολέμοιο κατὰ κλόνον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 35:5)

Synonyms

  1. dog-fly

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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