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κυνέη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνέη

Structure: κυνε (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: properly fem. of ku/neos, sub. dora/

Sense

  1. a dog's skin, a leathern cap

Declension

First 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

  • αὐτόσ θ’ ὅπλισμα τοὐπιδαύριον λαβὼν δεινῆσ κορύνησ διαφέρων ἐσφενδόνα ὁμοῦ τραχήλουσ κἀπικείμενον κάρα, κυνέασ θερίζων κἀποκαυλίζων ξύλῳ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:21)
  • ἔνθεν τέσσαρα μὲν σάκε’ ἔξελε, δούρατα δ’ ὀκτὼ καὶ πίσυρασ κυνέασ χαλκήρεασ ἱπποδασείασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 17:2)
  • ἔνθεν δώδεκα μὲν σάκε’ ἔξελε, τόσσα δὲ δοῦρα καὶ τόσσασ κυνέασ χαλκήρεασ ἱπποδασείασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 23:2)
  • κυνέασ δὲ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ἅπαντεσ ἐφόρεόν τε βασιλέεσ καὶ ἐτύγχανον τότε ἔχοντεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 151 3:2)
  • εἶχον δὲ αὐτῶν τόξα μετεξέτεροι Λύκια, περὶ δὲ τῇσι κεφαλῇσι ἐκ διφθερέων πεποιημένασ κυνέασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 77 2:3)

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

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