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κυνόμυια

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυνόμυια κυνομυίας

Structure: κυνομυι (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: = kuna/muia, Anth., Luc.

Sense

  1. dog-fly

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κυνόμυια κυνομυίᾱ κυνόμυιαι
Genitive κυνομυίᾱς κυνομυίαιν κυνομυιῶν
Dative κυνομυίᾱͅ κυνομυίαιν κυνομυίαις
Accusative κυνόμυιαν κυνομυίᾱ κυνομυίᾱς
Vocative κυνόμυια κυνομυίᾱ κυνόμυιαι

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

  • ἐὰν δὲ μὴ βούλῃ ἐξαποστεῖλαι τὸν λαόν μου, ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστέλλω ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ θεράποντάσ σου καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν σου καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ οἴκουσ ὑμῶν κυνόμυιαν, καὶ πλησθήσονται αἱ οἰκίαι τῶν Αἰγυπτίων τῆσ κυνομυίησ καὶ εἰσ τὴν γῆν, ἐφ̓ ἧσ εἰσιν ἐπ̓ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 8:17)
  • ἐποίησε δὲ Κύριοσ καθάπερ εἶπε Μωυσῆσ, καὶ περιεῖλε τὴν κυνόμυιαν ἀπὸ Φαραὼ καὶ τῶν θεραπόντων αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐ κατελείφθη οὐδεμία. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 8:27)
  • ἐξαπέστειλεν εἰσ αὐτοὺσ κυνόμυιαν, καὶ κατέφαγεν αὐτούσ, καὶ βάτραχον, καὶ διέφθειρεν αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 77:45)
  • ὁρᾷσ ἐπαγρυπνοῦντα καὶ τοῦτον ἐπὶ φροντίδων, ἀναλογιζόμενον τοὺσ τόκουσ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ κατεσκληκότα, ὃν δεήσει μετ’ ὀλίγον πάντα ταῦτα καταλιπόντα σίλφην ἢ ἐμπίδα ἢ κυνόμυιαν γενέσθαι; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 31:1)

Synonyms

  1. dog-fly

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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