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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

  • οἱ δὲ παῖσα πλακούντια παρὰ Κῴοισ, ὥσ φησιν Ιἀτροκλῆσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 56 1:3)
  • "διὰ τί παρὰ Κῴοισ ὁ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ ἱερεὺσ ἐν Ἀντιμαχείᾳ γυναικείαν ἐνδεδυμένοσ ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀναδούμενοσ μίτρᾳ κατάρχεται τῆσ θυσίασ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 581)
  • "διὰ τί παρὰ Κῴοισ ὁ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ ἱερεὺσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 581)
  • 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)
  • Κῴοισ μὲν οὖν τοῦτον ἐχρήσθη τὸν τρόπον· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. the highest throw with the

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

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