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κόθορνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόθορνος κοθόρνου

Structure: κοθορν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. buskin, high boot, which covered the whole foot and half the leg, with thick soles, used by actors to increase their height

Declension

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

  • μνημονεύει τοῦ διμύξου λύχνου καὶ Μεταγένησ ἐν Φιλοθύτῃ καὶ Φιλωνίδησ ἐν Κοθόρνοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce10)
  • Φιλωνίδησ δ’ ἐν Κοθόρνοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 147)
  • καὶ Ἄλεξισ ἐν Ὀρέστῃ Νικόστρατόσ τε ἐν Πλούτῳ Μένανδρόσ τε ἐν Μέθῃ καὶ ΝομοθέτῃΣ32 Φιλωνίδησ τε ἐν Κοθόρνοισ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 52 1:2)
  • μετὰ γὰρ τὴν μάχην σκυλεύοντεσ οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι τοὺσ βαρβάρουσ πέλταισ Ἀμαζονικαῖσ καὶ κοθόρνοισ ἐνετύγχανον, σῶμα δὲ οὐδὲν ὤφθη γυναικεῖον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 35 3:3)

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