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κότινος

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: κότινος

Sense

  1. the wild olive-tree

Examples

  • καρπὸν δ’ ἔχει στρογγύλον ἡλίκον ὁ κότινοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 34 1:8)
  • ἆθλα δὲ τῶν, κότινοσ, μῆλα, σέλινα, πίτυσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3572)
  • καίτοι ταῖσ μὲν αἰξὶν οὐκ ἀηδὴσ ὁ κότινοσ, ἄνθρωποσ δὲ οὐκ ἂν φάγοι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 7:3)
  • καὶ ‐ ἦν γὰρ κοτίνου ‐ τοῦτο μὲν ὅτῳ πιστὰ ἐνέφυ τῇ γῇ καὶ ἀνεβλάστησεν αὖθισ καὶ ἔστιν ὁ κότινοσ πεφυκὼσ ἔτι, τὸν δὲ Ἡρακλέα λέγουσιν ἀνευρόντα τὸν πρὸσ τῇ Σαρωνίδι κότινον ἀπὸ τούτου τεμεῖν ῥόπαλον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 16:3)
  • ἐπὶ θάλασσαν δὲ τὴν Ψιφαίαν πορευομένοισ κότινοσ πέφυκεν ὀνομαζόμενοσ ῥᾶχοσ στρεπτόσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 32 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. the wild olive-tree

Related

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

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