κυνόδους

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῠνόδων (kŭnódōn)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.nó.duːs/ → /cyˈno.ðus/ → /ciˈno.ðus/

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

Noun

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

1. 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
2. (in the plural) the teeth of a saw
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 10.20

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠνόδους ho kŭnódous	τὼ κῠνόδοντε tṑ kŭnódonte	οἱ κῠνόδοντες hoi kŭnódontes
Genitive	τοῦ κῠνόδοντος toû kŭnódontos	τοῖν κῠνοδόντοιν toîn kŭnodóntoin	τῶν κῠνοδόντων tôn kŭnodóntōn
Dative	τῷ κῠνόδοντῐ tôi kŭnódontĭ	τοῖν κῠνοδόντοιν toîn kŭnodóntoin	τοῖς κῠνόδουσῐ / κῠνόδουσῐν toîs kŭnódousĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν κῠνόδοντᾰ tòn kŭnódontă	τὼ κῠνόδοντε tṑ kŭnódonte	τοὺς κῠνόδοντᾰς toùs kŭnódontăs
Vocative	κῠνόδον kŭnódon	κῠνόδοντε kŭnódonte	κῠνόδοντες kŭnódontes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ὁ κῠνόδους; τοῦ κῠνόδοντος (Attic)

Descendants

• Translingual: Cynodon (generic name)

References

• “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