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κυνίσκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνίσκη

Structure: κυνισκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ku/wn

Sense

  1. a bitch-puppy

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

  • ἐμὲ δ’ ἁ χαρίεσσα Κυνίσκα ὑβρίσδει· (Theocritus, Idylls, 12)
  • ἁ δὲ Κυνίσκα ἔκλαι’ ἐξαπίνασ θαλερώτερον ἢ παρὰ ματρὶ παρθένοσ ἑξαέτησ κόλπω ἐπιθυμήσασα. (Theocritus, Idylls, 35)
  • ἁρ́μασι δ’ ὠκυπόδων ἵππων νικῶσα Κυνίσκα εἰκόνα τάνδ’ ἔστησα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 13, chapter 163)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ Ἀρχιδάμῳ καὶ θυγάτηρ, ὄνομα μὲν Κυνίσκα, φιλοτιμότατα δὲ ἐσ τὸν ἀγῶνα ἔσχε τὸν Ὀλυμπικόν καὶ πρώτη τε ἱπποτρόφησε γυναικῶν καὶ νίκην ἀνείλετο Ὀλυμπικὴν πρώτη. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 2:2)
  • ὅτι γὰρ μὴ τῇ Κυνίσκᾳ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα ἐποίησεν ὅστισ δή, καὶ ἔτι πρότερον Παυσανίᾳ τὸ ἐπὶ τῷ τρίποδι Σιμωνίδησ τῷ ἀνατεθέντι ἐσ Δελφούσ, ἄλλο δέ γε παρὰ ἀνδρὸσ ποιητοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων τοῖσ βασιλεῦσιν οὐδέν ἐστιν ἐσ μνήμην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a bitch-puppy

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

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