Κυνεσσιν | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

A dog; generally, a hound. By extension, used of a dog-like creature or (often pejoratively) a shameless or brutal person.

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Grammatical Analysis

"Κυνεσσιν"

Case: dative

Number: plural

Gender: masculine

Declension: third declension (stem in -ν-, e.g. κύων, κυνός)

Note: Form corresponds to κύων ‘dog’: dat. pl. κυσί(ν) is the usual Attic form; Κυνεσσιν reflects a dialectal/poetic analogical dative plural in -εσσι(ν) (='to/for the dogs').

Related Forms of κύων

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Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

κυνῶν genitive, plural, masculine κύων nominative, singular, common (masculine or feminin... κύνες nominative, plural, masculine Κυνος genitive, singular, masculine or feminine Κυνός genitive, singular, masculine (or feminine) κυσι dative, plural, masculine κυνες nominative, plural, masculine κυνάς accusative, plural, feminine κύνα accusative, singular, masculine κυνεσσιν dative, plural, masculine (lexical); form can be d...

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