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κύων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύων κυνός

Structure: κυων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a dog
  2. a bitch
  3. (pejorative) a bitch (used of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity)
  4. an offensive person

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ προσεκύνησε Μεμφιβοσθέ καὶ εἶπε. τίσ εἰμι ὁ δοῦλόσ σου, ὅτι ἐπέβλεψασ ἐπὶ τὸν κύνα τὸν τεθνηκότα τὸν ὅμοιον ἐμοί̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 9:8)
  • τίσ εἰρήνη ὑαίνῃ πρὸσ κύνα̣ καὶ τίσ εἰρήνη πλουσίῳ πρὸσ πένητα̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 13:18)
  • ὁ δὲ ἄνομοσ ὁ θύων μοι μόσχον ὡσ ὁ ἀποκτένων κύνα, ὁ δὲ ἀναφέρων σεμίδαλιν ὡσ αἷμα ὕειον, ὁ διδοὺσ λίβανον εἰσ μνημόσυνον ὡσ βλάσφημοσ. καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐξελέξαντο τὰσ ὁδοὺσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ βδελύγματα αὐτῶν, ἃ ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν ἠθέλησε, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 66:3)
  • καὶ ὃ πάντων γελοιότατον, ὦ θεοί, καὶ τὸν κύνα τῆσ Ἠριγόνησ, καὶ τοῦτον ἀνήγαγεν, ὡσ μὴ ἀνιῷτο ἡ παῖσ εἰ μὴ ἕξει ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ τὸ ξύνηθεσ ἐκεῖνο καὶ ὅπερ ἠγάπα κυνίδιον. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 5:3)
  • ὁ Βράγχοσ ἐπὶ πέτρασ καθεζόμενοσ ἀνέχει λαγὼν καὶ προσπαίζει τὸν κύνα, ὁ δὲ πηδησομένῳ ἐοίκεν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν εἰσ τὸ ὕψοσ, καὶ Ἀπόλλων παρεστὼσ μειδιᾷ τερπόμενοσ ἀμφοῖν καὶ τῷ παιδὶ παίζοντι καὶ πειρωμένῳ τῷ κυνί. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 24:2)

Synonyms

  1. a dog

  2. a bitch

  3. a bitch

  4. an offensive person

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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