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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

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

  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ γρυλίζοντεσ ὑπὸ φιληδίασ ἕπεσθε μητρὶ χοῖροι. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Lyric-Scene, strophe 22)
  • σὺ δ’ Ἀρίστυλλοσ ὑποχάσκων ἐρεῖσ, ἕπεσθε μητρὶ χοῖροι. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2a2)
  • ἤδη δέλφακεσ, χοῖροι δὲ τοῖσιν ἄλλοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 3:5)
  • "τῶν δὲ συῶν τὰ μὲν ἤδη συμπεπηγότα δέλφακεσ, τὰ δ’ ἁπαλὰ καὶ ἔνικμα χοῖροι, ἔνθεν τὸ Ὁμηρικὸν σαφὲσ γίνεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 4:1)
  • ἐστὶν δ’ ἡ κοπὶσ δεῖπνον, μᾶζα, ἄρτοσ, κρέασ, λάχανον ὠμόν, ‐ ζωμόσ, σῦκον, τράγημα, θέρμοσ ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδ’ ὀρθαγορίσκοι λέγονται, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πολέμων, οἱ γαλαθηνοὶ χοῖροι, ἀλλ’ ὀρθραγορίσκοι, ἐπεὶ πρὸσ τὸν ὄρθρον πιπράσκονται, ὡσ Περσαῖοσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ πολιτείᾳ καὶ Διοσκουρίδησ ἐν β’ πολιτείασ καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆσ ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ καὶ οὗτοσ τῆσ Λακώνων πολιτείασ ἔτι φησὶν ὁ Πολέμων καὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ὑπὸ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ἀίκλον προσαγορεύεσθαι, παραπλησίωσ ἁπάντων Δωριέων οὕτωσ αὐτὸ καλούντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 17 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pig

  2. generally

  3. a fish of the Nile

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