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σῦς

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σῦς συός

Structure: σῡ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pig; swine; hog

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

  • σύασ δὲ μοῦνον ἐναγέασ νομίζοντεσ οὔτε θύουσιν οὔτε σιτέονται. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 54:2)
  • "τά τε δμώεσσι πάρεστι χοίρε’, ἀτὰρ σιάλουσ γε σύασ μνηστῆρεσ ἔδουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 4:2)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ παλαιὸσ νόμοσ, ὥσ φησιν Ἀνδροτίων, τῆσ ἐπιγονῆσ ἕνεκα τῶν θρεμμάτων μὴ σφάττειν πρόβατον ἄπεκτον ἢ ἄτοκον διὸ τὰ ἤδη τέλεια ἤσθιον ἀτὰρ σιάλουσ γε σύασ μνηστῆρεσ ἔδουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 4:4)
  • παραπλησίωσ δὲ τῷ Ἀχαιῷ καὶ Ἐρατοσθένησ ἐν Ἀντερινύι τοὺσ σύασ λαρινοὺσ προσηγόρευσε μεταγαγὼν καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀπὸ τῶν λαρινῶν βοῶν οἳ οὕτωσ ἐκλήθησαν ἤτοι ἀπὸ τοῦ λαρινεύεσθαι ὁ̔́περ ἐστὶ σιτίζεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 18 2:2)
  • οὐ μὲν γάρ κε τοσόνδε κατ’ Ἀπίδα κνώδαλον εὑρ́οισ ἱμείρων ἰδέειν, ἐπεὶ οὐ μάλα τηλίκα βόσκει, ἀλλ’ ἄρκτουσ τε σύασ τε λύκων τ’ ὀλοφώιον ἔρνοσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 78)

Synonyms

  1. pig

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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