κυνισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῠνῐ́ζω (kunízō, “live like a dog; live like a Cynic”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ky.niz.mós/ → /cy.nizˈmos/ → /ci.nizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.niz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ky.nizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cy.nizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cy.nizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.nizˈmos/

Noun

κῠνῐσμός • (kunismós) m (genitive κῠνῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. Cynical philosophy or conduct

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῠνῐσμός; τοῦ κῠνῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῠνῐσμός ho kunismós	τὼ κῠνῐσμώ tṑ kunismṓ	οἱ κῠνῐσμοί hoi kunismoí
Genitive	τοῦ κῠνῐσμοῦ toû kunismoû	τοῖν κῠνῐσμοῖν toîn kunismoîn	τῶν κῠνῐσμῶν tôn kunismôn
Dative	τῷ κῠνῐσμῷ tôi kunismôi	τοῖν κῠνῐσμοῖν toîn kunismoîn	τοῖς κῠνῐσμοῖς toîs kunismoîs
Accusative	τὸν κῠνῐσμόν tòn kunismón	τὼ κῠνῐσμώ tṑ kunismṓ	τοὺς κῠνῐσμούς toùs kunismoús
Vocative	κῠνῐσμέ kunismé	κῠνῐσμώ kunismṓ	κῠνῐσμοί kunismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

References

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

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Greek

Noun

κυνισμός • (kynismós) m (uncountable)

1. cynicism
2. (philosophy) Cynicism

Declension

  κυνισμός

case     \     number	singular
nominative	κυνισμός •
genitive	κυνισμού •
accusative	κυνισμό •
vocative	κυνισμέ •

See also

• δυσπιστία f (dyspistía, “disbelief”)
• σκεπτικισμός m (skeptikismós, “scepticism”)