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κυνάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνάς κυνάδος

Structure: κυναδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a dog, dog's hair

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυνάς κυνάδε κυνάδες
Genitive κυνάδος κυνάδοιν κυνάδων
Dative κυνάδι κυνάδοιν κυνάσιν*
Accusative κυνάδα κυνάδε κυνάδας
Vocative κυνά κυνάδε κυνάδες

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

  • καὶ προσεκύνησε Μεμφιβοσθέ καὶ εἶπε. τίσ εἰμι ὁ δοῦλόσ σου, ὅτι ἐπέβλεψασ ἐπὶ τὸν κύνα τὸν τεθνηκότα τὸν ὅμοιον ἐμοί̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 9:8)
  • τίσ εἰρήνη ὑαίνῃ πρὸσ κύνα̣ καὶ τίσ εἰρήνη πλουσίῳ πρὸσ πένητα̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 13:18)
  • ὁ δὲ ἄνομοσ ὁ θύων μοι μόσχον ὡσ ὁ ἀποκτένων κύνα, ὁ δὲ ἀναφέρων σεμίδαλιν ὡσ αἷμα ὕειον, ὁ διδοὺσ λίβανον εἰσ μνημόσυνον ὡσ βλάσφημοσ. καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐξελέξαντο τὰσ ὁδοὺσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ βδελύγματα αὐτῶν, ἃ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν ἠθέλησε, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 66:3)
  • καὶ ὃ πάντων γελοιότατον, ὦ θεοί, καὶ τὸν κύνα τῆσ Ἠριγόνησ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνήγαγεν, ὡσ μὴ ἀνιῷτο ἡ παῖσ εἰ μὴ ἕξει ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ τὸ ξύνηθεσ ἐκεῖνο καὶ ὅπερ ἠγάπα κυνίδιον. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 5:3)
  • ὁ Βράγχοσ ἐπὶ πέτρασ καθεζόμενοσ ἀνέχει λαγὼν καὶ προσπαίζει τὸν κύνα, ὁ δὲ πηδησομένῳ ἐοίκεν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸ ὕψοσ, καὶ Ἀπόλλων παρεστὼσ μειδιᾷ τερπόμενοσ ἀμφοῖν καὶ τῷ παιδὶ παίζοντι καὶ πειρωμένῳ τῷ κυνί. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. of a dog

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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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