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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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ δαίμων κάρτοσ Αἰτωλοῖσ ὄρεξεν, θάπτομεν οὓσ κατέπε‐ φνεν σῦσ ἐριβρύχασ ἐπαί̈σσων βίᾳ, Ἀγκαῖον ἐμῶν τ’ Ἀγέλαον φ[έρτ]ατον κεδνῶν ἀδελφεῶν, οὓσ τέ]κεν ἐν μεγάροισ πατρὸ]σ Ἀλθαία περικλειτοῖσιν Οἰνέοσ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 9:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐν ἐρημίᾳ τούτων οὐδεὶσ ἂν ὑποσταίη θηρίον ὁμόσε ἰόν, ὁ δὲ παράσιτοσ αὐτά τε ἐπιόντα μένει καὶ δέχεται ῥᾳδίωσ, μεμελετηκὼσ αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ καταφρονεῖν, καὶ οὔτε ἔλαφοσ οὔτε σῦσ αὐτὸν ἐκπλήττει πεφρικώσ, ἀλλὰ κἂν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὁ σῦσ τὸν ὀδόντα θήγῃ, καὶ ὁ παράσιτοσ ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀντιθήγει. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 51:9)
  • αὐτοῦ λόχμην, ἐν ᾗ ἔτυχε σῦσ ἄγριοσ ὤν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 62 1:3)
  • αἱ δὲ Συράκουσαι σῦσ καὶ τυρὸν παρέχουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 49 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. pig

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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