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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 ἄνδρεσ ἅγιοι ἔσεσθέ μοι. καὶ κρέασ θηριάλωτον οὐκ ἔδεσθε, τῷ κυνὶ ἀπορρίψατε αὐτό. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 22:31)
  • "τί κυνὶ καὶ βαλανείῳ; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:14)
  • 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)
  • τοιγαροῦν ἐμπέπλησται πᾶσα πόλισ τῆσ τοιαύτησ ῥᾳδιουργίασ, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν Διογένη καὶ Ἀντισθένη καὶ Κράτητα ἐπιγραφομένων καὶ ὑπὸ τῷ κυνὶ ταττομένων, οἳ τὸ μὲν χρήσιμον ὁπόσον ἔνεστι τῇ φύσει τῶν κυνῶν, οἱο͂ν τὸ φυλακτικὸν ἢ οἰκουρικὸν ἢ φιλοδέσποτον ἢ μνημονικόν, οὐδαμῶσ ἐζηλώκασιν, ὑλακὴν δὲ καὶ λιχνείαν καὶ ἁρπαγὴν καὶ ἀφροδίσια συχνὰ καὶ κολακείαν καὶ τὸ σαίνειν τὸν διδόντα καὶ περὶ τραπέζασ ἔχειν, ταῦτα ἀκριβῶσ ἐκπεπονήκασιν. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 16:1)
  • κράτιστον γὰρ κυνὶ τοῦτο σιτίον, καὶ οὐ δέοσ μὴ ὑπερεμπλησθῇ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 8 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a dog

  2. a bitch

  3. a bitch

  4. an offensive person

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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