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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

  • τῶν μὲν ἰχθύων σὺ λήψει πάνθ’ ὅσ1’ ἂν βούλῃ γένη, εἰσ δὲ τὰ κρέα μόσχον ἔλαβεσ, δέλφακασ, χοίρουσ, λαγώσ β. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 52 2:3)
  • κάπρασ μὲν τὰσ αἶγασ, πόρκουσ δὲ τοὺσ χοίρουσ ὀνομάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 11 4:4)
  • Μόψοσ δὲ συὸσ οὔσησ ἐπιτόκου ἠρώτα Κάλχαντα, πόσουσ χοίρουσ κατὰ γαστρὸσ ἔχει καὶ πότε τέκοι· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 6:2)
  • καὶ συὶ δὲ ἀσθενεῖ χαλεπὸν πολλοὺσ ἁδροὺσ χοίρουσ ἐκτρέφειν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 17 11:5)
  • μετὰ δὲ τοσούτουσ ἐνιαυτοὺσ ὅσουσ ἂν ἡ ὗσ τέκῃ χοίρουσ κτισθήσεσθαι πρὸσ τῶν ἐξ ἐκείνου γενησομένων πόλιν ἑτέραν εὐδαίμονα καὶ μεγάλην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 56 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a pig

  2. generally

  3. a fish of the Nile

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