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κοσμητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοσμητός κοσμητή κοσμητόν

Structure: κοσμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kosme/w

Sense

  1. well-ordered, trim

Examples

  • ἔνθα δὲ κοσμηταὶ πρασιαὶ παρὰ νείατον ὄρχον παντοῖαι πεφύασιν, ἐπηετανὸν γανόωσαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 10:11)
  • ἐὰν δ’ εἰσίῃ ἢ κοσμῆται, τὸν ἐντυχόντα κελεύει καταρρηγνύναι τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ τὸν κόσμον ἀφαιρεῖσθαι καὶ τύπτειν, εἰργόμενον θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ἀνάπηρον ποιῆσαι, ἀτιμῶν τὴν τοιαύτην γυναῖκα καὶ τὸν βίον ἀβίωτον αὐτῇ κατασκευάζων. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1833)

Synonyms

  1. well-ordered

Derived

Similar forms

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

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