κυνόδων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κῠ́ων (kúōn, “dog”, stem: κῠν-, kun-) +‎ ὀδών (odṓn, Ionic variant of ὀδούς, odoús, “tooth”)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.nó.dɔːn/ → /cyˈno.ðon/ → /ciˈno.ðon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.nó.dɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈno.don/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈno.ðon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈno.ðon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈno.ðon/

Noun

κῠνόδων • (kunódōn) m (genitive κῠνόδοντος); third declension

1. Alternative form of κῠνόδους (kunódous)
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 21

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κῠνόδων; τοῦ κῠνόδοντος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠνόδων ho kunódōn	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.

Descendants

• Translingual: Cynodon (generic name)

References

• “κῠνόδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κυνόδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette