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κῶμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κῶμος κώμου

Structure: κωμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kw/mh

Sense

  1. festival, procession, revel, carousel
  2. The band of revellers of such an event
  3. A song or ode sung at such an event

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

  • ἢ γὰρ τεκνοφόνουσ τελετὰσ ἢ κρύφια μυστήρια ἢ ἐμμανεῖσ ἐξ ἄλλων θεσμῶν κώμουσ ἄγοντεσ, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 14:23)
  • τίνασ πότουσ ἀκαίρουσ, τίνασ κώμουσ ἐγκαλεῖσ ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 21:6)
  • ὦ πολλὰ κόμπουσ ἐκβαλὸν φίλον στόμα, ὄλωλασ, ἐψεύσω μ’, ὅτ’ ἐσπίπτων πέπλουσ, Ὦ μῆτερ, ηὔδασ, ἦ πολύν σοι βοστρύχων πλόκαμον κεροῦμαι, πρὸσ τάφον θ’ ὁμηλίκων κώμουσ ἀπάξω, φίλα διδοὺσ προσφθέγματα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:6)
  • οὐδ’ Ἀρίστων Πλάτωνοσ φιλοσοφοῦντοσ, οὐδ’ Εὐριπίδου καὶ Σοφοκλέουσ νίκασ οἱ πατέρεσ ἔγνωσαν ψελλιζόντων καὶ συλλαβιζόντων ἠκροῶντο καὶ κώμουσ καὶ πότουσ καὶ ἔρωτασ αὐτῶν οἱᾶ νέοι πλημμελούντων ἐπεῖδον· (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 4 9:1)
  • τελευταῖον δὲ καὶ προσέκρουε τὰ πολλὰ ἐπιτιμῶν, καὶ φορτικὸσ ἐδόκει ὑπομιμνήσκων ἀεὶ τῶν προγόνων καὶ φυλάττειν παραγγέλλων ἃ μετὰ πολλῶν καμάτων ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῷ κτησάμενοσ κατέλιπεν, ὥστε διὰ ταῦτα οὐδὲ ἐπὶ τοὺσ κώμουσ ἀπῆγεν ἔτι αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ μόνοσ μετ’ ἐκείνων ἐκώμαζε, λανθάνειν πειρώμενοσ τὸν Ἀγαθοκλέα. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 12:7)

Synonyms

  1. A song or ode sung at such an event

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