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κυνῶν (kynon)

κυνῶν is an Ancient Greek form of κύων, meaning “dog”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 203 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.125: λάθρῃ ἐυρρίνων τε κυνῶν αὐτῶν τε νομήων,

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.8.89: φησὶ δʼ αὐτὸν Ἐρατοσθένης ἐν τοῖς Πρὸς Βάτωνα καὶ Κυνῶν διαλόγους συνθεῖναι· οἱ δέ, γεγραφέναι μὲν Αἰγυπτίους τῇ αὑτῶν φωνῇ, τοῦτον δὲ μεθερμηνεύσαντα ἐκδοῦναι τοῖς …

All forms of κύων (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.