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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

  • ὅπωσ ἂν βαφῇ ὁ πούσ σου ἐν αἵματι, ἡ γλῶσσα τῶν κυνῶν σου ἐξ ἐχθρῶν παῤ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 67:24)
  • ΝΥΝΙ δὲ κατεγέλασάν μου ἐλάχιστοι, νῦν νουθετοῦσί με ἐν μέρει ὧν ἐξουδένουν τοὺσ πατέρασ αὐτῶν, οὓσ οὐχ ἡγησάμην ἀξίουσ κυνῶν τῶν ἐμῶν νομάδων. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 30:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὀλίγου δεῖν ὑπὸ τῶν Κυνικῶν ἐγώ σοι διεσπάσθην ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀκταίων ὑπὸ τῶν κυνῶν ἢ ὁ ἀνεψιὸσ αὐτοῦ ὁ Πενθεὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν Μαινάδων. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 3:4)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἡ σελήνη ἀνέτελλεν ‐ ἔδει γὰρ κἀκείνην θεάσασθαι τὸ κάλλιστον τοῦτο ἔργον ‐ πρόεισιν ἐκεῖνοσ ἐσκευασμένοσ ἐσ τὸν ἀεὶ τρόπον καὶ ξὺν αὐτῷ τὰ τέλη τῶν κυνῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ὁ γεννάδασ ὁ ἐκ Πατρῶν, δᾷδα ἔχων, οὐ φαῦλοσ δευτεραγωνιστήσ· (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 16:1)
  • τελευταῖον δὲ καὶ Μένιππόν τινα τῶν παλαιῶν κυνῶν μάλα ὑλακτικὸν ὡσ δοκεῖ καὶ κάρχαρον ἀνορύξασ, καὶ τοῦτον ἐπεισήγαγεν μοι φοβερόν τινα ὡσ ἀληθῶσ κύνα καὶ τὸ δῆγμα λαθραῖον, ὅσῳ καὶ γελῶν ἅμα ἔδακνεν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 33:10)

Synonyms

  1. a dog

  2. a bitch

  3. a bitch

  4. an offensive person

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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