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σκύμνος
σκύμνος
Ancient Greek
Noun
σκύμνος • (skúmnos) m, f (genitive σκύμνου); second declension
- cub, whelp, especially a lion's whelp
- Eurypides, The Suppliants 1222
- Lasus 4
- Plutarch, The Life of Lycurgus 18
- (poetic, of men or women)
- Euripides, Andromache 1171, (Compare Rhesus 382)
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Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ, ἡ σκῦμνος | τὼ σκύμνω | οἱ, αἱ σκῦμνοι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς σκύμνου | τοῖν σκύμνοιν | τῶν σκύμνων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ, τῇ σκύμνῳ | τοῖν σκύμνοιν | τοῖς, ταῖς σκύμνοις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν, τὴν σκῦμνον | τὼ σκύμνω | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς σκύμνους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | σκῦμνε | σκύμνω | σκῦμνοι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
- (cub): σκύλαξ (skúlax)
References
- σκύμνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- «σκύμνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «σκύμνος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.