ὑός (hyos)

ὑός is an Ancient Greek form of υἱός, meaning “son”.

It can also be a form of ὗς, “pig, boar, sow”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 94 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat 3: … ηθὲς μήτε δοκιμάζειν ὡς καλόν, ἀλλʼ ἐπαινεῖν μόνον ὡς ἐναρμόττον τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ προσώπῳ καὶ οἰκεῖον. ὥσπερ γὰρ ὑὸς βοὴν καὶ ψόφον τροχιλίας καὶ πνευμάτων ῥοῖζον καὶ θαλάττης κτύπον ἀκούοντες ἐνοχλούμεθα καὶ δυσχεραίνομεν, ἂν …

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 4.5.2: … ἴχνος ἀρόσεως ἔθηκε καὶ τὸ τῆς ὕνεως ὑφηγήσατο ἔργον· ὅθεν καὶ τοὔνομα γενέσθαι τῷ ἐργαλείῳ λέγουσιν ἀπὸ τῆς ὑός. οἱ δὲ τὰ μαλθακὰ καὶ κοῖλα τῆς χώρας Αἰγύπτιοι γεωργοῦντες οὐδʼ ἀρότρου δέονται τὸ παράπαν ἀλλʼ ὅταν ὁ Νεῖλο …

All forms of υἱός (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.