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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

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

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

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