κῠνικός, ή, όν,
(κύων) dog-like, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.17 (variant for{ὑϊκόν}); τὸ κ. καὶ θηριῶδες τῶν ὀρέξεων 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.133b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. σπασμός unilateral facial paralysis, [[ 1st c.AD: Celsus Medicus 4.3.1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).930] Refs 1st c.AD+]; κ. καύματα heat of the dogdays, [[ 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 2.30.3: _metaphorically_, ὁ ἄνθρωπος κ.] Refs 2nd c.AD+] currish, churlish, [[ LXX.1Ki.25.3 ] LXX]. adverb - κῶς, σπώμενοι [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 48.38 ] Refs 1st c.AD+] at Title Page; in doglanguage, opposed to βοϊκῶς, etc., [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 3.3. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II Κυνικός, ὁ, “Cynic”, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium (Κυνόσαργες) where he taught, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.13 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, Diog.Cyn. cited in [same work][[ 6.60, 4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus 16, Polystr. p.20 W., 6th c.AD: Elias Philosophus “in Aristotelis Categorias commentaria - pars” 111.2, etc.; Κράτητι τῷ κ. 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 117 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κ. αἵρεσις, ἄσκησις, φιλοσοφία, [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.352, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 6.13.6, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 6.187a; παρρησία κ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.69c; τὸ κ. τῆς παρρησίας [prev. author] “Brut.” 34 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]. adverb comparative -ώτερον [[ [prev. author] 2.601e. ] Refs]