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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

  • παιδία γοῦν καὶ γέροντεσ καὶ γύναια μετὰ νηπίων ὀδυρόμενα προσέπιπτον αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖσ ποσὶν ἐμπλεκόμενοι πάντεσ εἴχοντο, καὶ μετὰ κωκυτῶν κοινωνὸν σφίσι τῆσ τύχησ μένειν ἱκέτευον, οὐ φθόνῳ τῆσ ἐκείνου σωτηρίασ, ἔμοιγε δοκεῖν, ἀλλ’ ἐλπίδι τῆσ ἑαυτῶν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 249:2)
  • οἰκτρὸσ δὲ γυναικῶν καὶ παιδίων ὄλεθροσ ἦν, καί τινεσ πρὸσ ἀνακλήσεισ ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ συγγενῶν ἐθάρσησαν μετὰ κωκυτῶν ἱκετεύουσαι περιμένειν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 126:1)

Synonyms

  1. wailing 

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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