χοῖρος
See also: χοίρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰóřřos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰóryos (“pig”) (whence Proto-Albanian *darja and Albanian derr), from *ǵʰḗr (“hedgehog”) + *-yos.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰôi̯.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkʰy.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈçy.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈçy.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈçi.ros/
Noun
χοῖρος • (khoîros) m (genitive χοίρου); second declension
- a pig, especially a young one.
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Archarnians 521:
- κεἴ που σίκυον ἴδοιεν ἢ λαγῴδιον
ἢ χοιρίδιον ἢ σκόροδον ἢ χόνδρους ἅλας,
ταῦτ᾽ ἦν Μεγαρικὰ κἀπέπρατ᾽ αὐθημερόν.- keí pou síkuon ídoien ḕ lagṓidion
ḕ khoirídion ḕ skórodon ḕ khóndrous hálas,
taût᾽ ên Megarikà kapéprat᾽ authēmerón. - And if they see a cucumber or a young hare
or a piglet or a clove of garlic or a granule of salt,
They would shout "Megarian!" and take it all away.
- keí pou síkuon ídoien ḕ lagṓidion
- κεἴ που σίκυον ἴδοιεν ἢ λαγῴδιον
- (generally) swine
- (slang, vulgar) female genitalia, especially those belonging to a young woman
- 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Archarnians 782–783:
- νῦν γε χοῖρος φαίνεται.
ἀτὰρ ἐκτραφείς γε κύσθος ἔσται.- nûn ge khoîros phaínetai.
atàr ektrapheís ge kústhos éstai. - Now it looks like a pussy.
But once it's been reared, it'll be a cunt.
- nûn ge khoîros phaínetai.
- νῦν γε χοῖρος φαίνεται.
- a fish of the Nile
Usage notes
- For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Latin use of porcus.
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ χοῖρος ho khoîros |
τὼ χοίρω tṑ khoírō |
οἱ χοῖροι hoi khoîroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ χοίρου toû khoírou |
τοῖν χοίροιν toîn khoíroin |
τῶν χοίρων tôn khoírōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ χοίρῳ tôi khoírōi |
τοῖν χοίροιν toîn khoíroin |
τοῖς χοίροις toîs khoírois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν χοῖρον tòn khoîron |
τὼ χοίρω tṑ khoírō |
τοὺς χοίρους toùs khoírous | ||||||||||
Vocative | χοῖρε khoîre |
χοίρω khoírō |
χοῖροι khoîroi | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- χοίρειος (khoíreios)
- χοιρίδιον (khoirídion)
- χοίρινος (khoírinos)
- χοιρίον (khoiríon)
- Χοιροβοσκός (Khoiroboskós)
- χοιροπώλης (khoiropṓlēs)
- χοιροτροφεῖον (khoirotropheîon)
- χοιροφορέω (khoirophoréō)
Descendants
- Greek: χοίρος (choíros)
Further reading
- “χοῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “χοῖρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “χοῖρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- χοῖρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- χοῖρος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5519 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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