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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

  • διὸ πρῶτον μὲν ὀλίγαισ ναυσὶν ἐκ Σάμου περιέπλει τὴν Κνιδίων καὶ Κῴων θάλασσαν· (Plutarch, , chapter 27 1:3)
  • Κῴων γάρ, ὥσ φασι, καταγόντων σαγήνην, καὶ ξένων ἐκ Μιλήτου πριαμένων τὸν βόλον οὔπω φανερὸν ὄντα, χρυσοῦσ ἐφάνη τρίπουσ ἑλκόμενοσ, ὃν λέγουσιν Ἑλένην πλέουσαν ἐκ Τροίασ αὐτόθι καθεῖναι χρησμοῦ τινοσ ἀναμνησθεῖσαν παλαιοῦ. (Plutarch, , chapter 4 2:1)
  • καὶ πρῶτον μὲν ἀπεστάλη πρὸσ Θαλῆν εἰσ Μίλητον, ἑκουσίωσ τῶν Κῴων ἑνὶ δωρουμένων ἐκείνῳ περὶ οὗ πρὸσ ἅπαντασ ὁμοῦ Μιλησίουσ ἐπολέμησαν. (Plutarch, , chapter 4 3:1)
  • τῶν δὲ ναυαγησάντων περὶ τὸν Καφηρέα ἄλλοσ ἀλλαχῆ φέρεται, Γουνεὺσ μὲν εἰσ Λιβύην, Ἄντιφοσ δὲ ὁ Θεσσαλοῦ εἰσ Πελασγοὺσ καὶ <τὴν> χώραν κατασχὼν Θεσσαλίαν ἐκάλεσεν, ὁ δὲ Φιλοκτήτησ πρὸσ Ἰταλίαν εἰσ Καμπανούσ,Φείδιπποσ μετὰ τῶν Κῴων ἐν Ἄνδρῳ κατῴκησεν, Ἀγαπήνωρ ἐν Κύπρῳ, καὶ ἄλλοσ ἀλλαχοῦ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 24:1)
  • Φείδιπποσ δὲ μετὰ Κῴων ἐξωσθεὶσ περὶ τὴν Ἄνδρον, εἶτα περὶ Κύπρον ἐκεῖ κατῴκησεν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 6 26:3)
  • Κώων Φείδιπποσ καὶ Ἄντιφοσ οἱ Θεσσαλοῦ λ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 3 18:4)

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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