Ancient Greek

Noun

σκῠ́λᾰξ • ‎(skúlax) m, f ‎(genitive σκῠ́λᾰκος); third declension

1. young dog, whelp, puppy
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.289
   • Homer, Odyssey 9.289
   • Hesiod, Theogony 834
   • Herodotus, Histories 3.32
   1. dog
      • Euripides, The Bacchae 338
      • bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
   2. (of other young animals) whelp
   • Euripides, Hippolytus 1277
2. a chain, a chain or collar for the neck
   • Plato Comicus, Greece 5
3. Hesychius defines it as σχῆμα ‎(skhêma) ἀφροδισιακόν ‎(aphrodisiakón, “erotic dance?”)

Declension

Synonyms

• (young animal): σκυμνός ‎(skumnós)

References

• σκύλαξ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σκύλαξ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «σκύλαξ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cub idem, page 188.
  • dog idem, page 246.
  • hound idem, page 408.
  • puppy idem, page 658.
  • whelp idem, page 975.
  • young idem, page 997.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill