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κόσμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόσμος κόσμου

Structure: κοσμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. order
  2. lawful order, government
  3. mode, fashion
  4. ornament, decoration
  5. honour, credit
  6. ruler
  7. world, universe, the earth
  8. mankind

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

  • τοσοῦτον δὲ αὐτοῦ λείπεται κατὰ ταύτην τὴν ἀρετήν, ὅσον τῶν φύσει καλῶν σωμάτων τὰ συνερανιζόμενα κόσμοισ ἐπιθέτοισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 3 2:2)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν ἐξηλλαγμένη καὶ περιττὴ καὶ ἐγκατάσκευοσ καὶ τοῖσ ἐπιθέτοισ κόσμοισ ἅπασι συμπεπληρωμένη λέξισ, ἧσ ὁρ́οσ καὶ κανὼν ὁ Θουκυδίδησ, ὃν οὐθεὶσ οὔθ’ ὑπερεβάλετο τῶν ἐπιγινομένων οὔτε εἰσ ἄκρον ἐμιμήσατο, τοιαύτη τισ ἦν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 1 2:4)
  • "ἡμεῖσ δὲ τὴν ἀπειρίαν μῦθον εἶναί φαμεν ἐν κόσμοισ τοσούτοισ μηδένα λόγῳ θείῳ κυβερνώμενον ἔχουσαν, ἀλλὰ πάντασ ἐκ ταὐτομάτου καὶ γεγονότασ καὶ συνισταμένουσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 19 1:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἔστιν εἶναι καὶ μαντικὴν καὶ πρόνοιαν ἐν πλείοσι κόσμοισ, καὶ τὸ μικροτάτην τύχην παρεμπίπτειν, τὰ δὲ πλεῖστα καὶ μέγιστα τάξιν λαμβάνειν πρὸσ γένεσιν καὶ μεταβολήν, ὧν οὐδὲν ἡ ἀπειρία δέχεσθαι πέφυκεν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 242)
  • "ὁ μὲν γὰρ Ὁμηρικὸσ Ζεὺσ οὐ πάνυ πρόσω μετέθηκε τὴν ὄψιν ἀπὸ Τροίασ ἐπὶ τὰ Θρᾴκια καὶ τοὺσ περὶ τὸν Ἴστρον νομάδασ, ὁ δ’ ἀληθινὸσ ἔχει καλὰσ καὶ πρεπούσασ ἐν πλείοσι κόσμοισ μεταβολάσ, οὐχὶ κενὸν ἄπειρον ἔξω βλέπων οὐδ’ ἑαυτὸν ἄλλο δ’ οὐδὲν ὡσ ᾠήθησαν ἔνιοι νοῶν, ἀλλ’ ἔργα τε θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων πολλὰ κινήσεισ τε καὶ φορὰσ ἄστρων ἐν περιόδοισ καταθεώμενοσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 303)

Synonyms

  1. order

  2. lawful order

  3. ornament

  4. honour

  5. ruler

  6. world

  7. mankind

Related

Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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