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χοῖρος
χοῖρος
See also: χοίρος
Ancient Greek
Noun
χοῖρος • (khoîros) m (genitive χοίρου); second declension
Usage notes
- For the semantic shift of “pig” to “female genitalia”, compare the same Latin use of porcus.
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ χοῖρος | τὼ χοίρω | οἱ χοῖροι | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ χοίρου | τοῖν χοίροιν | τῶν χοίρων | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ χοίρῳ | τοῖν χοίροιν | τοῖς χοίροις | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν χοῖρον | τὼ χοίρω | τοὺς χοίρους | ||||||||||
| Vocative | χοῖρε | χοίρω | χοῖροι | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Synonyms
Derived terms
- χοίρειος (khoíreios)
- χοίρινος (khoírinos)
- χοιρίον (khoiríon)
- χοιρίδιον (khoirídion)
- χοιροπώλης (khoiropṓlēs)
Descendants
- Greek: χοίρος (choíros)
References
- χοῖρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χοῖρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- χοῖρος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- «χοῖρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- «χοῖρος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “G5519”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.