κυνίδιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῠ́ων (kúōn, stem: κῠν- (kun-)) +‎ -ῐ́δῐον (-ídion).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.ní.di.on/ → /cyˈni.ði.on/ → /ciˈni.ði.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.ní.di.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈni.di.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cyˈni.ði.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈni.ði.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈni.ði.on/

Noun

κῠνῐ́δῐον • (kunídion) n (genitive κῠνῐδῐ́ου); second declension

1. a little dog, a puppy
   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 542
   • 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 298e
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Oeconomicus 13.8
   • 110 BCE – 35 BCE, Philodemus, On Frank Criticism 10.O.
   • 446 BCE – 411 BCE, Eupolis, Collected Works 207
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric 1406b.28

Declension

Second declension of τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον; τοῦ κῠνῐδῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον tò kunídion	τὼ κῠνῐδῐ́ω tṑ kunidíō	τᾰ̀ κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ tà kunídia
Genitive	τοῦ κῠνῐδῐ́ου toû kunidíou	τοῖν κῠνῐδῐ́οιν toîn kunidíoin	τῶν κῠνῐδῐ́ων tôn kunidíōn
Dative	τῷ κῠνῐδῐ́ῳ tôi kunidíōi	τοῖν κῠνῐδῐ́οιν toîn kunidíoin	τοῖς κῠνῐδῐ́οις toîs kunidíois
Accusative	τὸ κῠνῐ́δῐον tò kunídion	τὼ κῠνῐδῐ́ω tṑ kunidíō	τᾰ̀ κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ tà kunídia
Vocative	κῠνῐ́δῐον kunídion	κῠνῐδῐ́ω kunidíō	κῠνῐ́δῐᾰ kunídia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (little dog, puppy): κῠνάριον (kunárion), σκύλαξ (skúlax)

References

• “κῠνίδιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press