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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

  • χοῖροσ ναὶ Δία. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:28)
  • ποδαπὴ δή ’στι χοῖροσ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:30)
  • ἀλλὰ μάν, αἰ λῇσ, περίδου μοι περὶ θυμιτιδᾶν ἁλῶν, αἰ μή ’στιν οὗτοσ χοῖροσ Ἑλλάνων νόμῳ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:37)
  • αὕτα ’στὶ χοῖροσ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:48)
  • νῦν γε χοῖροσ φαίνεται. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:49)
  • ἢ οὐ χοῖρόσ ἐσθ’ ἅδ’; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode, lyric 1:32)

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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