κύων

Ancient Greek

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Cognates include Latin canis, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván) and Old English hund (English hound). The final -ν (-n) in the nominative singular which was absent in *ḱwṓ was restored in Greek by analogy to other forms in the paradigm.

κῠ́ων • (kúōn) m or f (genitive κῠνός); third declension

a dog
Ψύλλους ὁ κύων ἔχει. - Ὁ κύων ψύλλους ἔχει. - Ἔχει ὁ κύων ψύλλους.
Psúllous ho kúōn ékhei. - Ho kúōn psúllous ékhei. - Ékhei ho kúōn psúllous.
The dog has fleas.
a bitch
(derogatory) a bitch (used of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity)
an offensive person

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ κῠ́ων; τοῦ, τῆς κῠνός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ κῠ́ων ho, hē kúōn	τὼ κῠ́νε tṑ kúne	οἱ, αἱ κῠ́νες hoi, hai kúnes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς κῠνός toû, tês kunós	τοῖν κῠνοῖν toîn kunoîn	τῶν κῠνῶν tôn kunôn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ κῠνῐ́ tôi, têi kuní	τοῖν κῠνοῖν toîn kunoîn	τοῖς, ταῖς κῠσῐ́ / κῠσῐ́ν / κῠ́νεσσῐ toîs, taîs kusí / kusín / kúnessi
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν κῠ́νᾰ tòn, tḕn kúna	τὼ κῠ́νε tṑ kúne	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς κῠ́νᾰς toùs, tā̀s kúnas
Vocative	κῠ́ον / κῠ́ων kúon / kúōn	κῠ́νε kúne	κῠ́νες kúnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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.
- bitch idem, page 80.
- dog idem, page 246.
- dog-star idem, page 246.
- hound idem, page 408.
- mastiff idem, page 517.
- monster idem, page 539.

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