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κυνοκέφαλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνοκέφαλος κυνοκέφαλου

Structure: κυνοκεφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kefalh/

Sense

  1. baboon

Declension

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

  • ὁ βοῦσ θεόσ, Πηλουσιώταισ δὲ κρόμμυον, καὶ ἄλλοισ ἶβισ ἢ κροκόδειλοσ καὶ ἄλλοισ κυνοκέφαλοσ ἢ αἴλουροσ ἢ πίθηκοσ· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 42:5)
  • ἡγοῦμαι τὸ ζητούμενον ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμολογουμένων καὶ κοινὰσ ἐχόντων τὰσ τιμάσ, οἱο͂́ν ἐστιν ἶβισ καὶ ἱέραξ καὶ κυνοκέφαλοσ, αὐτὸσ ὁ Ἆπισ οὕτω δὴ γὰρ τὸν ἐν Μένδητι τράγον καλοῦσι. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 73 7:1)
  • τὴν δ’ ἀρχὴν τοῦ λόγου τεθαύμακα, ὅτι οὐκ εἶπεν ἀρχόμενοσ τῆσ Ἀληθείασ ὅτι "πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἐστὶν ὗσ" ἢ "κυνοκέφαλοσ" ἤ τι ἄλλο ἀτοπώτερον τῶν ἐχόντων αἴσθησιν, ἵνα μεγαλοπρεπῶσ καὶ πάνυ καταφρονητικῶσ ἤρξατο ἡμῖν λέγειν, ἐνδεικνύμενοσ ὅτι ἡμεῖσ μὲν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ θεὸν ἐθαυμάζομεν ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ, ὁ δ’ ἄρα ἐτύγχανεν ὢν εἰσ φρόνησιν οὐδὲν βελτίων βατράχου γυρίνου, μὴ ὅτι ἄλλου του ἀνθρώπων. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 119:3)

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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