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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυνέη κυνέᾱ κυνέαι
Genitive κυνέᾱς κυνέαιν κυνεῶν
Dative κυνέᾱͅ κυνέαιν κυνέαις
Accusative κυνέᾱν κυνέᾱ κυνέᾱς
Vocative κυνέᾱ κυνέᾱ κυνέαι

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

  • δεινὴ δὲ περὶ κροτάφοισιν ἄνακτοσ κεῖτ’ Αἴδοσ κυνέη νυκτὸσ ζόφον αἰνὸν ἔχουσα. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 24:9)
  • ἰόσ, τόξα, σάκοσ, κυνέη, δόρυ, φάσγανα, θώρηξ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4941)
  • εἰ δ’ αὖ καὶ πόλεμόν ποθεν ὁρμήσειε Κρονίων σήμερον, αὐτὰρ ἐμοὶ σάκοσ εἰή καὶ δύο δοῦρε καὶ κυνέη πάγχαλκοσ, ἐπὶ κροτάφοισ ἀραρυῖα, τῷ κέ μ’ ἴδοισ πρώτοισιν ἐνὶ προμάχοισι μιγέντα, οὐδ’ ἄν μοι τὴν γαστέρ’ ὀνειδίζων ἀγορεύοισ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 60:5)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐκ ποταμοῖο ῥοάων αὐτῇ ἀφυσσάμενοσ κυνέῃ σβέσεν ὕδατι δίψαν· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:54)
  • καὶ πόδα πὰρ ποδὶ θεὶσ καὶ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδοσἀσπίδ’ ἐρείσασ, ἐν δὲ λόφον τε λόφῳ καὶ κυνέην κυνέῃ καὶ στέρνον στέρνῳ πεπλημένοσ ἀνδρὶ μαχέσθω, ἢ ξίφεοσ κώπην ἢ δόρυ μακρὸν ἑλών. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 155)
  • κλήρουσ δ’ ἐν κυνέῃ χαλκήρεϊ πάλλομεν ὦκα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 20:3)

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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