Κυνός | Ancient Greek Analysis with Conjugation Tables

Definition

Dog, hound; a domesticated canine. In Classical Greek, κύων designates the animal and is sometimes used metaphorically for a base person, but its primary sense remains "dog."

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Grammatical Analysis

"Κυνός"

Case: genitive

Number: singular

Gender: masculine (or feminine)

Declension: third

Related Forms of κύων

5 forms discovered

Other inflected forms of this word that have been analyzed:

κυνῶν genitive, plural, masculine Κυνος genitive, singular, masculine or feminine κύων nominative, singular, common (masculine or feminin... κύνες nominative, plural, masculine κυσι dative, plural, masculine

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