κυνόδους

Ancient Greek

From κῠ́ων (kúōn, “dog”, stem: κῠν-, kun-) +‎ ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth”).

κῠνόδους • (kunódous) m (genitive κῠνόδοντος); third declension

a canine tooth, a cuspid (properly of dogs, but also used of lions, of men, and of horses, as well as of a serpent’s fang)
- 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 661b.9
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 501b.7
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 579b.12
- 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.25
- 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 21
- 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 6.8
- 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 576b.17
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 130
- 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 231
(in the plural) the teeth of a saw
- 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 10.20

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠνόδους ho kunódous	τὼ κῠνόδοντε tṑ kunódonte	οἱ κῠνόδοντες hoi kunódontes
Genitive	τοῦ κῠνόδοντος toû kunódontos	τοῖν κῠνοδόντοιν toîn kunodóntoin	τῶν κῠνοδόντων tôn kunodóntōn
Dative	τῷ κῠνόδοντῐ tôi kunódonti	τοῖν κῠνοδόντοιν toîn kunodóntoin	τοῖς κῠνόδουσῐ / κῠνόδουσῐν toîs kunódousi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κῠνόδοντᾰ tòn kunódonta	τὼ κῠνόδοντε tṑ kunódonte	τοὺς κῠνόδοντᾰς toùs kunódontas
Vocative	κῠνόδον kunódon	κῠνόδοντε kunódonte	κῠνόδοντες kunódontes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“κῠνόδους”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“κυνόδους”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
κυνόδους in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette