κυνίδιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κῠ́ων (kúōn, stem: κῠν- (kun-)) + -ῐ́δῐον (-ídion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ky.ní.di.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈni.di.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈni.ði.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈni.ði.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈni.ði.on/
Noun
κῠνῐ́δῐον • (kunídion) n (genitive κῠνῐδῐ́ου); second declension
- a little dog, a puppy
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 542
- 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 298e
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 13.8
- 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Frank Criticism 10.O.
- 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 207
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1406b.28
Declension
Second declension of τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον; τοῦ κῠνῐδῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον tò kunídion | τὼ κῠνῐδῐ́ω tṑ kunidíō | τᾰ̀ κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ tà kunídia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῠνῐδῐ́ου toû kunidíou | τοῖν κῠνῐδῐ́οιν toîn kunidíoin | τῶν κῠνῐδῐ́ων tôn kunidíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῠνῐδῐ́ῳ tôi kunidíōi | τοῖν κῠνῐδῐ́οιν toîn kunidíoin | τοῖς κῠνῐδῐ́οις toîs kunidíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον tò kunídion | τὼ κῠνῐδῐ́ω tṑ kunidíō | τᾰ̀ κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ tà kunídia | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠνῐ́δῐον kunídion | κῠνῐδῐ́ω kunidíō | κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ kunídia | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (little dog, puppy): κῠνάριον (kunárion), σκύλαξ (skúlax)
References
- “κῠνίδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press