Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • οὔ φατι τάνδε χοῖρον εἶμεν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:36)
  • καὶ τοῦ θυγατρίου χοῖρον ἀνδρόσ μοι τυχεῖν πλουτοῦντοσ, ἄλλωσ δ’ ἠλιθίου κἀβελτέρου, καὶ ποσθαλίσκον νοῦν ἔχειν μοι καὶ φρένασ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 3:20)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, ἡμεῖσ αὐταί τε καὶ τὰ δουλάρια τέφραν ποθὲν λαβοῦσαι ταύτησ ἀποψιλώσομεν τὸν χοῖρον, ἵνα διδαχθῇ γυνὴ γυναῖκασ οὖσα μὴ κακῶσ λέγειν τὸ λοιπόν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, epirrheme3)
  • μὴ δῆτα τόν γε χοῖρον ὦ γυναῖκεσ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, epirrheme4)
  • καὶ τάσ γε δούλασ οὐχὶ δεῖ κοσμουμένασ τὴν τῶν ἐλευθέρων ὑφαρπάζειν Κύπριν, ἀλλὰ παρὰ τοῖσ δούλοισι κοιμᾶσθαι μόνον κατωνάκην τὸν χοῖρον ἀποτετιλμένασ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, pnigos 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. a pig

  2. generally

  3. a fish of the Nile

Related

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION