ὗς

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Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *hūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“swine”). Compare Latin sūs, English swine, sow.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

ὗς • (hûs) m or f (genitive ὑός); third declension

  1. pig, swine, hog

Inflection

Irregular declension of ὁ, ἡ ὗς; τοῦ, τῆς ὑός (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ ὗς
ho, hē hûs 		τὼ ὕε
tṑ húe 		οἱ, αἱ ὕες
hoi, hai húes
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς ὑός
toû, tês huós 		τοῖν ὑοῖν
toîn huoîn 		τῶν ὑῶν
tôn huôn
Dative τῷ, τῇ ὑΐ
tôi, têi huḯ 		τοῖν ὑοῖν
toîn huoîn 		τοῖς, ταῖς ὑσί / ὑσίν
toîs, taîs husí(n)
Accusative τὸν, τὴν ὗν
tòn, tḕn hûn 		τὼ ὕε
tṑ húe 		τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς ὗς
toùs, tā̀s hûs
Vocative ὗ
hû 		ὕε
húe 		ὕες
húes
Notes:
Irregular declension of ὗς; ὑός (Epic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὗς
hûs 		ὕε
húe 		ὕες
húes
Genitive ὑός
huós 		ὑοῖν
huoîn 		ὑῶν
huôn
Dative ὑΐ
huḯ 		ὑοῖν
huoîn 		ὑσί / ὑσίν / ῠ̔́εσσι
husí(n) / húessi
Accusative ὗν
hûn 		ὕε
húe 		ὗς
hûs
Vocative ὗ
hû 		ὕε
húe 		ὕες
húes
Notes:
  • Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “ὗς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὗς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὗς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • “ὗς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5300 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, page 612
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