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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cunīculus, although attested earlier (in Polybius) than the latter.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈcy.ni.klos/ → /ˈci.ni.klos/
Noun
κύνικλος • (kúniklos) m (genitive κυνίκλου); second declension
- rabbit
- Synonyms: δασύπους (dasúpous), ἡμίλαγος (hēmílagos), λαγιδεύς (lagideús), λεβηρίς (lebērís)
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- κύνικλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κύνικλος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “κύνικλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Dickey, Eleanor (2023) Latin loanwords in Ancient Greek: A lexicon and analysis, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 236