σῦς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ὗς (hûs) – prose, Poetic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“swine”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /sŷːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /sys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /sys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /sys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /sis/
Noun
σῦς • (sûs) m or f (genitive σῠός); third declension
- pig; swine; hog
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ, ἡ σῦς; τοῦ, τῆς σῠός (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ σῦς ho, hē sûs | τὼ σῠ́ε tṑ súe | οἱ, αἱ σῠ́ες hoi, hai súes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς σῠός toû, tês suós | τοῖν σῠοῖν toîn suoîn | τῶν σῠῶν tôn suôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ σῠῐ̈́ tôi, têi suḯ | τοῖν σῠοῖν toîn suoîn | τοῖς, ταῖς σῡσῐ́ / σῡσῐ́ν / σῠσῐ́ / σῠσῐ́ν toîs, taîs sūsí(n) / susí(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν σῦν tòn, tḕn sûn | τὼ σῠ́ε tṑ súe | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς σῦς / σῠ́ᾰς toùs, tā̀s sûs / súas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῦ sû | σῠ́ε súe | σῠ́ες súes | ||||||||||
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Third declension of σῦς; σῠός (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | σῦς sûs | σῠ́ε súe | σῠ́ες súes | ||||||||||
Genitive | σῠός suós | σῠ́οιῐν súoiin | σῠῶν suôn | ||||||||||
Dative | σῠῐ̈́ suḯ | σῠ́οιῐν súoiin | σῠ́εσσῐ / σῠ́εσσῐν súessi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | σῦν sûn | σῠ́ε súe | σῦς / σῠ́ᾰς sûs / súas | ||||||||||
Vocative | σῦ sû | σῠ́ε súe | σῠ́ες súes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σύαινα (súaina)
- σύϊνος (súïnos)
Related terms
- ὕαινᾰ (húaina)
Further reading
- “σῦς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σῦς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- σῦς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 612