Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κυνηγετικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνηγετικός κυνηγετική κυνηγετικόν

Structure: κυνηγετικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kunhge/ths

Sense

  1. of or for hunting, fond of the chase

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὥστε μέγα μοι δοκεῖ τὸ κτῆμα ἄρρην κύων τῇ ἀληθείᾳ γενναῖοσ καὶ οὐκ ἄνευ θεῶν του εὐμενείασ παραγίγνεσθαι ἀνδρὶ κυνηγετικῷ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 32 2:3)
  • Ξενοφῶν Κυνηγετικῷ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6 1:7)
  • "Ξενοφῶν δ’ ἐν Κυνηγετικῷ χωρὶσ τοῦ ν λαγῶ καὶ περισπωμένωσ, ἐπεὶ τὸ καθ’ ἡμᾶσ ἐστι λαγόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 626)
  • πολύγονον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ζῷον ὁ λαγώσ, ὡσ Ξενοφῶν εἴρηκεν ἐν τῷ Κυνηγετικῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 63 1:1)
  • καὶ μάλιστά γε τούτῳ πρόσεχε, ὅτι οὐκ ἐπισημαίνονται οἱ ἀφελεῖσ ἄνδρεσ τὰσ δυνάμεισ, ἀλλ’ αὐτὰσ ἐφ’ ἑαυτῶν ἀξιοῦσι δείκνυσθαι, ἐκτὸσ εἰ μὴ καιρὸσ εὔθετόσ που φανείη, ὡσ καὶ ἐν τῷ Κυνηγετικῷ, ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν παραινῶ τοῖσ νέοισ μὴ καταφρονεῖν κυνηγεσίων. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or for hunting

Related

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

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