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ὗς

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὗς ὑός

Structure: ὑ̄ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. pig, swine, hog

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὗς ύ̔ε ύ̔ες
Genitive ὑός ὑοῖν ὑῶν
Dative ὑί̈ ὑοῖν ὑσίν*
Accusative ὗν ύ̔ε ύ̔ας
Vocative ύ̔̄́ ύ̔ε ύ̔ες

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

  • ἐν τῇ Κύπρῳ δ’ οὕτω φιληδεῖ ταῖσ ὑσίν, ὦ δέσποθ’, ὥστε σκατοφαγεῖν ἀπεῖρξε τὸ ζῷον, τοὺσ δὲ βοῦσ ἠνάγκασεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 1:7)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν Ἀμίλχαρ μὲν ἄφνω ταῖσ Ῥωμαίων να υσὶν ἐπιπλεύσασ μίαν ἔλαβε τριήρη καὶ φορτίδασ ἕξ, Ἄννων δ’ ἐπιθέμενοσ τοῖσ πολιορκοῦσιν Ἰτύκην ἀπεκρούσθη. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 4:15)
  • ποταμίοισ γε μὴν ἵπποισ καὶ ὑσὶν ἡ κάτωθεν γένυσ τοὺσ χαυλιόδοντασ φέρει, κέρατα δὲ ἀναφυόμενα <οὐχ> ὁρῶμεν ἐκ γενύων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 4:4)
  • μαντικὴ δὲ ἡ μὲν <δι’> ἐρίφων καὶ ἀρνῶν τε καὶ μόσχων ἐκ παλαιοῦ δήλη καθεστῶσά ἐστιν ἀνθρώποισ, Κύπριοι δὲ ὡσ καὶ ὑσὶν ἐπεξευρόντεσ ἔστι μαντεύεσθαι, κυσὶ δὲ οὐδένεσ ἐπί γε μαντικῆσ νομίζουσιν οὐδὲν χρᾶσθαι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. pig

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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