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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

  • οὐ προσοίσεισ μίσθωμα πόρνησ οὐδὲ ἄλλαγμα κυνὸσ εἰσ τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου πρὸσ πᾶσαν εὐχήν, ὅτι βδέλυγμα Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σού ἐστι καὶ ἀμφότερα. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 23:19)
  • καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ πρὸσ Δαυίδ. ὡσεὶ κύων ἐγώ εἰμι, ὅτι σὺ ἔρχῃ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ ἐν ράβδῳ καὶ λίθοισ̣ καὶ εἶπε Δαυίδ. οὐχί, ἀλλ̓ ἢ χείρων κυνόσ. καὶ κατηράσατο ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ τὸν Δαυὶδ ἐν τοῖσ θεοῖσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:22)
  • καὶ νῦν ὀπίσω τίνοσ σὺ ἐκπορεύῃ, βασιλεῦ Ἰσραήλ̣ ὀπίσω τίνοσ καταδιώκεισ σύ̣ ὀπίσω κυνὸσ τεθνηκότοσ καὶ ὀπίσω ψύλλου ἑνόσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 24:15)
  • καὶ ἐθυμώθη σφόδρα Ἀβεννὴρ περὶ τοῦ λόγου τούτου τῷ Ἰεβοσθέ, καὶ εἶπεν Ἀβεννὴρ πρὸσ αὐτόν. μὴ κεφαλὴ κυνὸσ ἐγώ εἰμι̣ ἐποίησα σήμερον ἔλεοσ μετὰ τοῦ οἴκου Σαοὺλ τοῦ πατρόσ σου καὶ περὶ ἀδελφῶν καὶ περὶ γνωρίμων καὶ οὐκ ηὐτομόλησα εἰσ τὸν οἶκον Δαυίδ. καὶ ἐπιζητεῖσ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ σὺ ὑπὲρ ἀδικίασ γυναικὸσ σήμερον̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 3:8)
  • ρῦσαι ἀπὸ ῥομφαίασ τὴν ψυχήν μου, καὶ ἐκ χειρὸσ κυνὸσ τὴν μονογενῆ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 21:21)

Synonyms

  1. a dog

  2. a bitch

  3. a bitch

  4. an offensive person

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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