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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

  • σπονδῇ τε καὶ σπλάγχνοισιν ἀγρίησ χοίρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 17 5:3)
  • τισ τούτων τῶν δευτέρων ἑπτὰ σοφῶν ὀνομασθέντων τοιοῦτόν τι ἐπενόησε περὶ τοῦ χοίρου, πῶσ καὶ τὰ ἐντὸσ πεπλήρωται καὶ τὸ μὲν ὀπταλέον ἐστὶν αὐτοῦ, τὸ δὲ ἑφθόν αὐτὸσ δ’ ἐστὶν ἄσφακτοσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 251)
  • Φιλύλλιὸσ τε ἢ ὁ ποιήσασ τὰσ Πόλεισ φησίν ὅ τι ἂν τύχῃ μάγειροσ ἀδικήσασ, τὸν αὐλητὴν λαβεῖν πληγάσ περὶ ἡμιόπτου καὶ ἡμιέφθου καὶ ἀσφάκτου γεμιστοῦ χοίρου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 26 3:2)
  • καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα περιέπλασα τοῦ χοίρου τὴν ἡμίσειαν, ὡσ ὁρᾶτε, ἀλφίτοισ πολλοῖσ κριθῆσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 26 6:3)
  • κρέα τ’ ἄλλα τὸ πλῆθοσ ἀμύθητον χηνόσ, χοίρου, βοόσ, ἀρνόσ, οἰόσ, κάπρου, αἰγόσ, ἀλεκτρυόνοσ, νήττησ, κίττησ, πέρδικοσ, ἀλωπεκίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 67 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pig

  2. generally

  3. a fish of the Nile

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