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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

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

  • "ἀμαράκινον δὲ Κῷον καὶ μήλινον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:22)
  • ἐνεῖναι δὲ τάριχόσ τε καὶ οἶνον Κῷον καὶ ἄλλ’ ἄττα, καὶ ταῦτα ἔφασαν πάντα ἀντιφορτισθέντα μέλλειν ἀπάγειν Ἀθήναζε, εἰ μὴ ἀπώλετο ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 48:5)
  • τό τε οἰνάριον τὸ Κῷον ὀγδοήκοντα στάμνοι ἐξεστηκότοσ οἴνου, καὶ τὸ τάριχοσ ἀνθρώπῳ τινὶ γεωργῷ παρεκομίζετο ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ ἐκ Παντικαπαίου εἰσ Θεοδοσίαν τοῖσ ἐργάταισ τοῖσ περὶ τὴν γεωργίαν χρῆσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 49:4)
  • ὑμεῖσ δέ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ἐνθυμεῖσθε πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ αὐτούσ, εἴ τινασ πώποτ’ ἴστε ἢ ἠκούσατε οἶνον Ἀθήναζε ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου κατ’ ἐμπορίαν εἰσαγαγόντασ, ἄλλωσ τε καὶ Κῷον. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 57:2)
  • λέγει δὲ ὁ Πρόκλοσ καὶ ἀριστεῦσαι τῷ μέτρῳ Καλλῖνόν τε τὸν Ἐφέσιον καὶ Μίμνερμον τὸν Κολοφώνιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Τηλέφου Φιλητᾶν τὸν Κῷον καὶ Καλλίμαχον τὸν Βάττου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section32)
  • εἶτ’ ἀντακαῖον ἰχθύων τάριχοσ ἢ κρεῶν, βατανίων εὐθέωσ δίπυρον παραθήσω κᾠὸν ἐπιτετμημένον, πῦον, μέλιτοσ ὀξύβαφον ἐπὶ ταγηνιῶν, τυροῦ τροφάλια χλωρὰ Κυθνίου παρατεμὼν, βοτρύδιόν τι, χόριον, ἐν ποτηρίῳ γλυκὺν τὸ τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἀεί πωσ μέροσ ἐπιπαίζεται, κεφαλὴ δὲ δείπνου γίνεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 12 2:3)

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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