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κυνάς?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: kynas

Principal Part: κυνάς κυνάδος

Structure: κυναδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. of a dog, dog's hair

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ εὐώδεσι τὰς χεῖρας κατεχρίοντο τὰς ἀπομαγδαλίας ἀτιμάσαντες, ἃς Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἐκάλουν κυνάδας, ὥς φησι Πολέμων ἐν τῇ περὶ ὀνομάτων ἀδόξων ἐπιστολῇ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 77 1:4)
  • ἑπταδράχμως κυνάδας, γραιᾶν ἀποτίλματα πηρᾶν, πέντε πόκως ἔλαβ ἐχθές, ἅπαν ῥύπον, ἔργον ἐπ ἔργῳ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 23)
  • καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπ αὐτοὺς τέσσαρα εἴδη, λέγει Κύριος. τὴν μάχαιραν εἰς σφαγὴν καὶ τοὺς κύνας εἰς διασπασμὸν καὶ τὰ θηρία τῆς γῆς καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ εἰς βρῶσιν καὶ εἰς διαφθοράν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 15:3)
  • ἄχρι δὴ συνελθόντας τοὺς κύνας πρὸς τὸν ἦχον - πολλοὶ δὲ ἦσαν αὐτόθι - διασπάσασθαι αὐτόν, ὡς τοῦτο γοῦν ὅμοιον τῷ Ὀρφεῖ παθεῖν καὶ μόνους ἐφ ἑαυτὸν συγκαλέσαι τοὺς κύνας. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 12:2)
  • Περεγρίνου δὲ τοῦ Πρωτέως ἐπιτιμῶντος αὐτῷ, ὅτι ἐγέλα τὰ πολλὰ καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις προσέπαιζε, καὶ λέγοντος, Δημῶναξ, οὐ κυνᾷς, ἀπεκρίνατο, Περεγρῖνε, οὐκ ἀνθρωπίζεις. (Lucian, (no name) 21:1)
  • κύνας καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ζῷα μέτειμι: (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 21:10)

Synonyms

  1. of a dog

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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