ὗς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“swine”). Compare Latin sūs, English swine, sow.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

ὗς • (hûs) m, f (genitive ὑός); third declension

  1. pig, swine, hog

Inflection
Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ ὗς; τοῦ, τῆς ὑός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ ὗς
ho, hē hûs		 τὼ ὕε
tṑ húe		 οἱ, αἱ ὕες
hoi, hai húes
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς ὑός
toû, tês huós		 τοῖν ὑοῖν
toîn huoîn		 τῶν ὑῶν
tôn huôn
Dative τῷ, τῇ ὑΐ
tôi, têi huḯ		 τοῖν ὑοῖν
toîn huoîn		 τοῖς, ταῖς ὑσί / ὑσίν
toîs, taîs husí(n)
Accusative τὸν, τὴν ὗν
tòn, tḕn hûn		 τὼ ὕε
tṑ húe		 τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὗς
toùs, tā̀s hûs
Vocative ὗ
hû		 ὕε
húe		 ὕες
húes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.
Irregular declension of ὗς; ὑός (Epic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὗς
hûs		 ὕε
húe		 ὕες
húes
Genitive ὑός
huós		 ὑοῖν
huoîn		 ὑῶν
huôn
Dative ὑΐ
huḯ		 ὑοῖν
huoîn		 ὑσί / ὑσίν / ῠ̔́εσσι
husí(n) / húessi
Accusative ὗν
hûn		 ὕε
húe		 ὗς
hûs
Vocative ὗ
hû		 ὕε
húe		 ὕες
húes
Notes:
  • Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

References
  • ὗς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὗς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὗς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὗς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὗς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὗς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5300 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, page 612
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