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ὑϊκός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: huikos

Principal Part: ὑϊκός ὑϊκή ὑϊκόν

Structure: ὑϊκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ὗς

Sense

  1. of or for swine, of the swine's nature

Declension

First/Second 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

  • λέγεται τὸν Σωκράτην ἄλλων τε πολλῶν παρόντων καὶ τοῦ Εὐθυδήμου εἰπεῖν ὅτι ὑϊκὸν αὐτῷ δοκοίη πάσχειν ὁ Κριτίας, ἐπιθυμῶν Εὐθυδήμῳ προσκνῆσθαι ὥσπερ τὰ ὑϊ´δια τοῖς λίθοις. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , ael. v.h. 10. 13.3)
  • πλείστων γὰρ ὑϊκῶν ἱερείων κοπτομένων ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ διά τε τὰς εἰς τοὺς ἰδίους βίους καὶ τὰς εἰς τὰ στρατόπεδα παραθέσεις, τὴν ὁλοσχερεστάτην χορηγίαν ἐκ τούτων συμβαίνει τῶν πεδίων αὐτοῖς ὑπάρχειν. (Polybius, Histories, book 2, chapter 15 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or for swine

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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