κύων

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Cognates include Latin canis, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván) and Old English hund (English hound). The final -ν (-n) in the nominative singular which was absent in *ḱwṓ was restored in Greek by analogy to other forms in the paradigm.

Noun

κῠ́ων • (kúōn) m or f (genitive κῠνός); third declension

1. a dog
2. a bitch
3. (derogatory) a bitch (used of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity)
4. an offensive person

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: κύων (kýon)
• Tsakonian: κούε (koúe)

Further reading

• “κύων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κύων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κύων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κύων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• κύων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κύων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2965 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bitch idem, page 80.
  • dog idem, page 246.
  • dog-star idem, page 246.
  • hound idem, page 408.
  • mastiff idem, page 517.
  • monster idem, page 539.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

κύων • (kúōn) m (feminine κύουσᾰ, neuter κύον); first/third declension

1. present active participle of κύω (kúō)

Declension