Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κῠνόδων ‎(kunódōn)

Noun

κῠνόδους • ‎(kunódous) m ‎(genitive κῠνόδοντος); third declension

1. a canine tooth, a cuspid (properly of dogs, but also used of lions, of men, and of horses, as well as of a serpent’s fang)
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 661b.9
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 501b.7
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 579b.12
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Aphorisms 3.25
   • 540 BCE – 450 BCE, Epicharmus, Collected Works 21
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, On Horsemanship 6.8
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 576b.17
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 130
   • 200 BCE – 100 BCE, Nicander, Theriaca 231
2. (in the plural) the teeth of a saw
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 10.20

Declension

Descendants

• Translingual: Cynodon (generic name)

References

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