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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

  • ἅμα δὲ Δίκτυννα παῖσ Ἄρτεμισ καλὰ τὰσ κυνίσκασ ἔχουσ’ ἐλθέτω διὰ δόμων πανταχῇ, σὺ δ’ ὦ Διὸσ διπύρουσ ἀνέχουσα λαμπάδασ ὀξυτάτασ χεροῖν Ἑκάτα παράφηνον ἐσ Γλύκησ, ὅπωσ ἂν εἰσελθοῦσα φωράσω. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric15)
  • Κυνίσκασ δὲ ὕστερον γυναιξὶ καὶ ἄλλαισ καὶ μάλιστα ταῖσ ἐκ Λακεδαίμονοσ γεγόνασιν Ὀλυμπικαὶ νῖκαι, ὧν ἡ ἐπιφανεστέρα ἐσ τὰσ νίκασ <οὐδεμία> ἐστὶν αὐτῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 2:3)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τῷ Πλατανιστᾷ καὶ Κυνίσκασ ἐστὶν ἡρῷον, θυγατρὸσ Ἀρχιδάμου βασιλεύοντοσ Σπαρτιατῶν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 2:1)
  • ἀναθήματα δὲ ὁπόσα ἔνδον ἢ ἐν τῷ προνάῳ κεῖται, θρόνοσ ἐστὶν Ἀριμνήστου βασιλεύσαντοσ ἐν Τυρσηνοῖσ, ὃσ πρῶτοσ βαρβάρων ἀναθήματι τὸν ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Δία ἐδωρήσατο, καὶ ἵπποι Κυνίσκασ χαλκοῖ, σημεῖα Ὀλυμπικῆσ νίκησ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 9:1)
  • πεποίηται δὲ ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ παρὰ τὸν ἀνδριάντα τοῦ Τρωίλου λίθου κρηπὶσ καὶ ἁρ́μα τε ἵππων καὶ ἀνὴρ ἡνίοχοσ καὶ αὐτῆσ Κυνίσκασ εἰκών, Ἀπελλοῦ τέχνη, γέγραπται δὲ καὶ ἐπιγράμματα ἐσ τὴν Κυνίσκαν ἔχοντα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 1 10:1)

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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