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κόθουρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόθουρος κόθουρον

Structure: κοθουρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from koqw/ an old word for bla/bh, and ou)ra/ tail.

Sense

  1. dock-tailed, without a sting

Examples

  • τῷ δὲ θεοὶ νεμεσῶσι καὶ ἀνέρεσ, ὅσ κεν ἀεργὸσ ζώῃ, κηφήνεσσι κοθούροισ εἴκελοσ ὀργήν, οἵ τε μελισσάων κάματον τρύχουσιν ἀεργοὶ ἔσθοντεσ· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 36:6)

Synonyms

  1. dock-tailed

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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