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κώθων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κώθων κώθωνος

Structure: κωθων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a Laconian drinking-vessel

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κώθων κώθωνε κώθωνες
Genitive κώθωνος κωθώνοιν κωθώνων
Dative κώθωνι κωθώνοιν κώθωσιν*
Accusative κώθωνα κώθωνε κώθωνας
Vocative κώθων κώθωνε κώθωνες

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

  • κατὰ πόλιν καὶ χώραν, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ πρόσταγμα, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ ἔκθεμα, χαρὰ καὶ εὐφροσύνη τοῖσ Ἰουδαίοισ, κώθων καὶ εὐφροσύνη. καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν περιετέμνοντο καὶ ἰουδάϊζον διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:38)
  • κώθων δ’ οὐ παραλειπτὸσ ἀσύμβολοσ, ἀλλὰ διωκτόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 4:1)
  • ’ τὸ δεῖπνον πρῶτον μὲν ἑκάστῳ χωρὶσ παρατιθέμενον καὶ πρὸσ ἕτερον κοινωνίαν οὐδεμίαν ἔχον εἶτα μᾶζαν μὲν ὅσην ἂν ἕκαστοσ ᾖ βουλόμενοσ, καὶ πιεῖν πάλιν ὅταν ᾖ θυμὸσ ἑκάστῳ κώθων παρακείμενόσ ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 191)
  • κώθων Λακωνικὸν ποτήριον, οὗ μνημονεύει Ξενοφῶν ἐν α Κύρου Παιδείασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 1:1)
  • κώθων Λακωνικόσ, ἔκπωμα ἐπιτηδειότατον εἰσ στρατείαν καὶ εὐφορώτατον ἐν γυλιῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. a Laconian drinking-vessel

Related

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

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