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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κύων κύνε κύνες
Genitive κύνος κύνοιν κύνων
Dative κύνι κύνοιν κῦσιν*
Accusative κύνα κύνε κύνας
Vocative κύων κύνε κύνες

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

  • τοιγαροῦν οὕτω κατεδυσώπησεν αὐτὸν ἐκ τῶν λόγων, ὥστε ἁρπασάμενοσ τὰ τόξα καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ναυστάθμου καθίσασ ἑαυτὸν κατετόξευσε τῷ λοιμῷ τοὺσ Ἀχαιοὺσ αὐταῖσ ἡμιόνοισ καὶ κυσίν. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 3:2)
  • ι Ὅτι ἡ τρῖψισ ταῖσ κυσὶν ὠφέλιμοσ, καὶ πῶσ ταύτασ δεῖ ἀποτρίβειν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter pr12)
  • ὦτα δὲ μεγάλα ἔστω ταῖσ κυσὶν καὶ μαλθακά, ὥστε ὑπὸ μεγέθουσ καὶ μαλθακότητοσ ἐπικεκλασμένα φαίνεσθαι· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 7:1)
  • ἀσφαλέσταται γὰρ αἱ ὡρ͂αι αὗται ταῖσ κυσίν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 1:2)
  • καὶ τότε ἄρα ἐστὶν τὸ θέαμα ἄξιον τῶν πόνων, ὅσουσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ κυσὶν πονεῖν ἀνάγκη. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 15 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a dog

  2. a bitch

  3. a bitch

  4. an offensive person

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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