Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Hellenic *hūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- (swine). Compare Latin sūs, English swine, sow.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ὗς (hûsm or f (genitive ὑός); third declension

  1. pig, swine, hog

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ὗς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ὗς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • ὗς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • ὗς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • ὗς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G5300 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 612