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Κῷος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κῷος Κῷη Κῷον

Structure: Κῳ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Kw=s

Sense

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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative Κῷος Κῴη Κῷον
Genitive Κῴου Κῴης Κῴου
Dative Κῴῳ Κῴῃ Κῴῳ
Accusative Κῷον Κῴην Κῷον
Vocative Κῷε Κῴη Κῷον
DualN/A/V Κῴω Κῴᾱ Κῴω
G/D Κῴοιν Κῴαιν Κῴοιν
PluralNominative Κῷοι Κῷαι Κῷα
Genitive Κῴων Κῳῶν Κῴων
Dative Κῴοις Κῴαις Κῴοις
Accusative Κῴους Κῴᾱς Κῷα
Vocative Κῷοι Κῷαι Κῷα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective Κῷος Κῴου Κῳότερος Κῳοτέρου Κῳότατος Κῳοτάτου
Adverb Κῴως Κῳότερον Κῳότατα

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

  • "φησὶ γὰρ Μακαρεὺσ ἐν τῇ τρίτῃ Κῳακῶν ὅτι ὁπόταν τῇ Ἥρᾳ θύωσιν οἱ Κῷοι οὔτε εἴσεισιν εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν δοῦλοσ οὔτε γεύεταί τινοσ τῶν παρεσκευασμένων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:8)
  • Κῷοι δὲ τοὐναντίον δρῶσιν, ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Μακαρεὺσ ἐν τρίτῳ Κῳακῶν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 44 2:5)
  • Κῷοι χάλκειον στῆσαν ὑπὸ πλατάνῳ Βιττίδα μολπάζοντα θοήν, περὶ πάντα Φιλίταν ῥήματα καὶ πᾶσαν τρυόμενον λαλιήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 10:1)
  • καὶ νομίσαντεσ αὐτὸν οἱ Κῷοι λῃστρικὸν ἄγειν στόλον, βάλλοντεσ λίθοισ προσπλεῖν ἐκώλυον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 7 1:4)
  • καὶ ἦν τὰ μὲν ἐκ Δαρείου τοῦ Ὑστάσπου, τὰ δὲ ἐκ τῆσ Πτολεμαίων ἀρχῆσ, ὅσα Κλεοπάτρα Κῴοισ παρέθετο καὶ Κῷοι Μιθριδάτῃ ἐδεδώκεσαν· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 17 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. the highest throw with the

Related

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

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