κύω

κύω, post-Hom. form of κυέω (aor. 1 in Ep., v. infr. II): I. in pres. and impf., of females, conceive, Λάβδα κύει τέξει δὲ κτλ. Orac. ap. Hdt. 5.92.βʹ, cf. Ar. Fr. 609, Pl. Lg. 789e, etc.; κύω μῆνα ὄγδοον ἤδη Luc. DMeretr. 2.1; κ. ἀπό τινος Id. Gall. 19: metaph., κύει πόλις ἥδε Thgn. 39. 2. rarely c.acc., to be pregnant with, οὐδὲ κύουσι πολλὰ κυήματα Arist. HA 543b22; παιδίον Luc. DMeretr. 2.4: metaph., ἡ ψυχή μου ἀεὶ τοῦτο κύουσα (al. κυοῦσα) διῆγεν X. Cyr. 5.4.35:—Pass., to be borne in the womb, τὰ κυόμενα παιδία Arist. Pr. 860a21, Jul. Or. 2.99c. II. in aor. Act. ἔκῡσα, causal, of the male, impregnate, metaph., ὄμβρος ἔκυσε γαῖαν A. Fr. 44.4:—aor. Med. ἐκῡσάμην, of the female, conceive, οὓς τέκε κυσαμένη Hes. Th. 125, cf. 405, h.Hom. 1.4; Ζηνί by Zeus, Asius Fr.Ep. 1.3 K.; ὅσσους . . Τυφάονι κύσατο Κητώ Euph. 112.—The forms κυέω and κύω seem synonymous, but κυέω (κυῶ) is the better-attested form in Att. Prose (κύοντα only v.l. in Pl. Tht. 151b, κύοντες is read in Arist. HA 544a23 (v.l. κύονες, ποιοῦντες) , κύοντα ib.585a3, κυόμενα (v.l. -ούμενα) Pr.l.c., κυόμενον (v.l. -ούμενον) GA 730b4, but κυοῦντες HA 610b3; ἐκύομεν LXX ls. 59.13).—The pres. κύω has ῠ in verse, but forms of κῠέω can be restored by altering the accent.—The causal sense belongs only to the aor. ἔκῡσα.