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Κῷος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: Kōios

Principal Part: Κῷος Κῷη Κῷον

Structure: Κῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Κῶς

Sense

  1. of, from the island Cos, Coan
  2. the highest throw with the

Declension

First/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

  • μελλόντων δὲ τῶν Ιὤνων λύειν καὶ ποιέειν τὰ κελευόμενα, Κώης ὁ Ἐρξάνδρου στρατηγὸς ἐὼν Μυτιληναίων ἔλεξε Δαρείῳ τάδε, πυθόμενος πρότερον εἰ οἱ φίλον εἰή γνώμην ἀποδέκεσθαι παρὰ τοῦ βουλομένου ἀποδείκνυσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 97 3:1)
  • οὗτος μὲν δὴ ταύτην αἱρέεται, ὁ δὲ Κώης, οἱά῀ τε οὐ τύραννος δημότης τε ἐών, αἰτέει Μυτιλήνης τυραννεῦσαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 11 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. the highest throw with the

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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