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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

  • ἄπελθε καὶ χοίρῳ διαλέγου, ἵν’ ἐν βορβόρῳ μὴ κυλίηται. (Epictetus, Works, book 4, 29:5)
  • ὁπόσα δὲ ἢ ταῖσ ἑκκαίδεκα γυναιξὶν ἢ τοῖσ ἑλλανοδικοῦσιν Ἠλείων δρᾶν καθέστηκεν, οὐ πρότερον δρῶσι πρὶν ἢ χοίρῳ τε ἐπιτηδείῳ πρὸσ καθαρμὸν καὶ ὕδατι ἀποκαθήρωνται. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 16 11:1)

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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