κυνόμυια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

κύων (kúōn) +‎ μυῖα (muîa)

Noun

κυνόμυια • (kunómuia) f (genitive κυνομυίας); first declension

1. dog-fly
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Exodus 8.17

References

• “κυνόμυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κυνόμυια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κυνόμυια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κυνόμυια in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963