κυνισμός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κῠνῐ́ζω (kunízō, “live like a dog; live like a Cynic”) + -μός (-mós).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ky.niz.mós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ky.nizˈmos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cy.nizˈmos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cy.nizˈmos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ci.nizˈmos/
Noun
κῠνῐσμός • (kunismós) m (genitive κῠνῐσμοῦ); second declension
- Cynical philosophy or conduct, Cynicism
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῠνῐσμός; τοῦ κῠνῐσμοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῠνῐσμός ho kunismós | τὼ κῠνῐσμώ tṑ kunismṓ | οἱ κῠνῐσμοί hoi kunismoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῠνῐσμοῦ toû kunismoû | τοῖν κῠνῐσμοῖν toîn kunismoîn | τῶν κῠνῐσμῶν tôn kunismôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῠνῐσμῷ tôi kunismôi | τοῖν κῠνῐσμοῖν toîn kunismoîn | τοῖς κῠνῐσμοῖς toîs kunismoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῠνῐσμόν tòn kunismón | τὼ κῠνῐσμώ tṑ kunismṓ | τοὺς κῠνῐσμούς toùs kunismoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠνῐσμέ kunismé | κῠνῐσμώ kunismṓ | κῠνῐσμοί kunismoí | ||||||||||
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References
- “κυνισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κυνισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κυνισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Greek
Noun
κυνισμός • (kynismós) m (uncountable)
- cynicism
- (philosophy) Cynicism
Declension
κυνισμός
case \\ number | singular |
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nominative | κυνισμός • |
genitive | κυνισμού • |
accusative | κυνισμό • |
vocative | κυνισμέ • |
See also
- δυσπιστία f (dyspistía, “disbelief”)
- σκεπτικισμός m (skeptikismós, “scepticism”)