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λύκου (lykou)

λύκου is an Ancient Greek form of λύκος, meaning “wolf”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

It can also be a form of Λύκος, “Lykos — Lycus (name)”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.75.2: μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο λαμπρῶς ἤδη ἐς δημοκρατίαν βουλόμενοι μεταστῆσαι τὰ ἐν τῇ Σάμῳ ὅ τε Θρασύβουλος ὁ τοῦ Λύκου καὶ Θράσυλος (οὗτοι γὰρ μάλιστα προειστήκεσαν τῆς μεταβολῆς) ὥρκωσαν πάντας τοὺς στρατιώτας τοὺς μεγίστους ὅρ …

Euripides, Hecuba 90: εἶδον γὰρ βαλιὰν ἔλαφον λύκου αἵμονι χαλᾷ

All forms of λύκος (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.