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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

  • τρίτον Περὶ ψυχῆσ, τέταρτον Περὶ εὐσεβείασ, πέμπτον Ἡλοθαλῆ τὸν Ἐπιχάρμου τοῦ Κῴου πατέρα, ἕκτον Κρότωνα καὶ ἄλλουσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 7:4)
  • "γύναι, θάρσεε καὶ ὡσ ἱκέτισ καὶ εἰ δὴ πρὸσ τούτῳ τυγχάνεισ ἀληθέα λέγουσα καὶ εἶσ θυγάτηρ Ἡγητορίδεω τοῦ Κῴου, ὃσ ἐμοὶ ξεῖνοσ μάλιστα τυγχάνει ἐὼν τῶν περὶ ἐκείνουσ τοὺσ χώρουσ οἰκημένων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 76 4:1)
  • Κλαζομενίου δὲ Ἡροδότου καὶ Φιλίνου τοῦ Ἡγεπόλιδοσ Κῴου ἀνέθεσαν τὰσ εἰκόνασ αἱ πόλεισ, Κλαζομένιοι μὲν ὅτι ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ Κλαζομενίων πρῶτοσ ἀνηγορεύθη νικῶν Ἡρόδοτοσ, ἡ δέ οἱ νίκη σταδίου γέγονεν ἐν παισί, Φιλῖνον δὲ οἱ Κῷοι δόξησ ἕνεκα ἀνέθεσαν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 4:1)

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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