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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

  • φημὶ δ’ οὖν χρῆναι ποιεῖσθαι τὴν εἰρήνην μὴ μόνον πρὸσ Χίουσ τε καὶ Ῥοδίουσ καὶ Βυζαντίουσ καὶ Κῴουσ ἀλλὰ πάντασ ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ χρῆσθαι ταῖσ συνθήκαισ μὴ ταύταισ, αἷσ νῦν τινεσ γεγράφασιν, ἀλλὰ ταῖσ γενομέναισ μὲν πρὸσ βασιλέα καὶ Λακεδαιμονίουσ, προσταττούσαισ δὲ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ αὐτονόμουσ εἶναι καὶ τὰσ φρουρὰσ ἐκ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων πόλεων ἐξεἷναι καὶ τὴν αὑτῶν ἔχειν ἑκάστουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 16 6:5)
  • Ῥοδίων δὲ ναῦσ αὐτῷ προσπαρασχόντων Κῴουσ ἔπεισε καὶ Κνιδίουσ τῶν βασιλικῶν ἀπαλλαγέντασ ἐπὶ Σαμίουσ συστρατεύειν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • ἐπικαλεῖσθαι γὰρ σφᾶσ τοὺσ Κῴουσ· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 2 6:2)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐπειδὴ διαπρεσβευόμενοι ἠλογοῦντο, πρὸσ τοὺσ Κῴουσ πολεμοῦσι. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 11:6)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν Κῴουσ ἀπέστησαν, εἶτα Νισυρίουσ καὶ Τηίουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 83 14:2)

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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