σῦς

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Ancient GreekEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ὗς (hûs) (prose and verse)

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Indo-European *sū- (“swine”)

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /sŷːs/ → /sys/ → /sis/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /sŷːs/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /sys/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /sys/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /sys/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /sis/

NounEdit

σῦς • (sûs) m, f (genitive συός); third declension

1. pig; swine; hog

InflectionEdit

Declension of σῦς, συός

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ/ἡ σῦς	τὼ σύε	οἱ/αἱ σύες
Genitive	τοῦ/τῆς συός	τοῖν συοῖν	τῶν συῶν
Dative	τῷ/τῇ συΐ	τοῖν συοῖν	τοῖς/ταῖς συσΐ(ν)
Accusative	τὸν/τὴν σῦν	τὼ σύε	τοὺς/τὰς σῦς
Vocative	σῦ	σύε	σύες
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

Related termsEdit

• ὕαινα (húaina)

ReferencesEdit

• σῦς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σῦς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σῦς» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 612