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χοῖρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοῖρος χοίρου

Structure: χοιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pig, especially a young one.
  2. generally, = ὗς ‎(hûs), σῦς ‎(sûs), swine
  3. pudenda muliebria, woman parts (cf. the same Latin use of porcus)
  4. a fish of the Nile

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χοῖρος χοίρω χοῖροι
Genitive χοίρου χοίροιν χοίρων
Dative χοίρῳ χοίροιν χοίροις
Accusative χοῖρον χοίρω χοίρους
Vocative χοῖρε χοίρω χοῖροι

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

  • χοῖρε χοῖρε. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 2:4)
  • "τά τε δμώεσσι πάρεστι χοίρε’, ἀτὰρ σιάλουσ γε σύασ μνηστῆρεσ ἔδουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 4:2)
  • "ἔσθιε νῦν, ὦ ξεῖνε, τά τε δμώεσσι πάρεστι, χοίρε’· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pig

  2. generally

  3. a fish of the Nile

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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