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Κωκυτός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κωκυτός Κωκυτοῦ

Structure: Κωκυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cocytus, a river in the underworld
  2. wailing :

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Κωκυτός Κωκυτώ Κωκυτοί
Genitive Κωκυτοῦ Κωκυτοῖν Κωκυτῶν
Dative Κωκυτῷ Κωκυτοῖν Κωκυτοῖς
Accusative Κωκυτόν Κωκυτώ Κωκυτούς
Vocative Κωκυτέ Κωκυτώ Κωκυτοί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καταλήξαντεσ δὲ θρήνου πανόδυρτον μέλοσ ἀνέλαβον ᾠδὴν πάτριον, τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ τερατοποιὸν αἰνοῦντεσ Θεόν. οἰμωγήν τε πᾶσαν καὶ κωκυτὸν ἀπωσάμενοι χοροὺσ συνίσταντο εὐφροσύνησ εἰρηνικῆσ σημεῖον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:32)
  • κωκυτὸν τ’ ἀθέμιστον ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι μηνίσαντα εἶδε, καὶ αἰνοτάτου βλέμμ’ ὑπέμεινε κυνόσ, ἐν πυρὶ μὲν φωνὴν τεθοωμένου, ἐν πυρὶ δ’ ὄμμα σκληρόν, τριστοίχοισ δεῖμα φέρον κεφαλαῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 1:2)
  • ἦ που τάλαινα, τήνδ’ ὅταν κλύῃ φάτιν, ἥσει μέγαν κωκυτὸν ἐν πάσῃ πόλει. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:12)
  • ἠχεῖ τισ οὐκ ἄσημον, ἀλλὰ δυστυχῆ κωκυτὸν εἴσω, καί τι καινίζει στέγη. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode3)
  • νῦν δ’ ἀμφὶ Κωκυτόν τε κἀχερουσίουσ ὄχθασ ἐοίκα θεσπιῳδήσειν τάχα. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 74)

Synonyms

  1. wailing 

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