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κύων
κύων
Ancient Greek
Noun
κῠ́ων • (kúōn) m, f (genitive κῠνός); third declension
- a dog
- a bitch
- (pejorative) a bitch (used of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity)
- an offensive person
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ κῠ́ων | τὼ κῠ́νε | οἱ, αἱ κῠ́νες | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς κῠνός | τοῖν κῠνοῖν | τῶν κῠνῶν | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ κῠνῐ́ | τοῖν κῠνοῖν | τοῖς, ταῖς κῠσῐ́, κῠσῐ́ν, κῠ́νεσσῐ | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν κῠ́νᾰ | τὼ κῠ́νε | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠ́νᾰς | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῠ́ον, κῠ́ων | κῠ́νε | κῠ́νες | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- κῠνάγχη (kunánkhē)
- κῠνίδιον (kunídion)
- κῠνοδέσμη (kunodésmē)
- κῠνόδους (kunódous)
- κῠνόμαζον (kunómazon)
Descendants
- Greek: κυνικός (kynikós), κυνο- (kyno-)
References
- κύων in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύων in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κύων in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «κύων» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «κύων» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- κύων in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G2965”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.