κόθορνος
Second declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
κόθορνος
κοθόρνου
Structure:
κοθορν
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- 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.
- "ἢ καὶ νὴ Δί’ εἴ τισ ὑποδησάμενοσ κοθόρνουσ μικρὸσ αὐτὸσ ὢν ἐρίζοι περὶ μεγέθουσ τοῖσ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἰσοπέδου ὅλῳ πήχει ὑπερέχουσιν. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 3:2)
- μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον οὐδ’ ἐγὼ γὰρ τὰσ ἐμὰσ Λακωνικάσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔτυχον χεζητιῶν, ἐσ τὼ κοθόρνω τὼ πόδ’ ἐνθεὶσ ἱέμαι, ἵνα μὴ ’γχέσαιμ’ ἐσ τὴν σισύραν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode29)
- εἰ δὲ λυπήσεισ τί με, τῷδέ γ’ ἀψήκτῳ πατάξω τῷ κοθόρνῳ τὴν γνάθον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees6)
- τί κόθορνοσ καὶ ῥόπαλον ξυνηλθέτην; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 2:17)
- οὐ μὲν οὖν με προσεδόκασ, ὁτιὴ κοθόρνουσ εἶχεσ, ἂν γνῶναί σ’ ἔτι; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics8)
- τίσ ἡ ’πίνοια, τίσ ὁ κόθορνοσ τῆσ ὁδοῦ; (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:10)
- καὶ γὰρ εἰσ δυσγένειαν ὡσ ξένοσ ἐκ Κέω λελοιδόρηται, καὶ διὰ τὸ μὴ μόνιμον, ἀλλ’ ἐπαμφοτερίζον ἀεὶ τῇ προαιρέσει τῆσ πολιτείασ ἐπεκλήθη Κόθορνοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 2 1:2)
- ὅθεν δήπου καὶ κόθορνοσ ἐπικαλεῖται. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 37:1)
- καὶ γὰρ ὁ κόθορνοσ ἁρμόττειν μὲν τοῖσ ποσὶν ἀμφοτέροισ δοκεῖ, ἀποβλέπει δὲ ἀπ’ ἀμφοτέρων. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 37:2)
