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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

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)
  • περιρρεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν χώραν αὐτοῦ ποταμοῖσ μεγάλοισ τε καὶ φοβεροῖσ καὶ ἐκ μόνων τῶν ὀνομάτων Κωκυτοὶ γὰρ καὶ Πυριφλεγέθοντεσ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα κέκληνται. (Lucian, (no name) 3:1)
  • οἰμωγαὶ δ’ ἐπὶ τούτοισ καὶ κωκυτὸσ γυναικῶν καὶ παρὰ πάντων δάκρυα καὶ στέρνα τυπτόμενα καὶ σπαραττομένη κόμη καὶ φοινισσόμεναι παρειαί· (Lucian, (no name) 12:1)
  • "τί δέ με ὁ κωκυτὸσ ὑμῶν ὀνίνησι καὶ ἡ πρὸσ τὸν αὐλὸν αὕτη στερνοτυπία καὶ ἡ τῶν γυναικῶν περὶ τὸν θρῆνον ἀμετρία ; (Lucian, (no name) 16:17)
  • ὁρῶ γῆν πολλὴν καὶ λίμνην τινὰ μεγάλην περιρρέουσαν καὶ ὄρη καὶ ποταμοὺσ τοῦ Κωκυτοῦ καὶ Πυριφλεγέθοντοσ μείζονασ καὶ ἀνθρώπουσ πάνυ σμικροὺσ καί τινασ φωλεοὺσ αὐτῶν. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 6:1)
  • βοὴ δὲ καὶ κωκυτὸσ ἦν ἀνὰ πτόλιν νέων γερόντων, ἱερά τ’ ἐξεπίμπλασαν φόβῳ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:25)
  • ἀεὶ δ’ ἀοιδῶν μοῦνοσ ἐν στέγαισ ἐμαῖσ κωκυτὸσ ἐμπέπτωκεν· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 6 2:3)
  • ἀεὶ δ’ ἀοιδῶν μοῦνοσ ἐν στέγαισ ἐμαῖσ κωκυτὸσ ἐμπέπτωκεν· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 6 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. wailing 

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