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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

  • τότε οἱ πρὶν ἐπονείδιστοι καὶ πλησίον τοῦ ᾅδου, μᾶλλον δ̓ ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ βεβηκότεσ, ἀντὶ πικροῦ καὶ δυσαιάκτου μόρου, κώθωνα σωτήριον συστησάμενοι, τὸν εἰσ πτῶσιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ τάφον ἡτοιμασμένον τόπον κλισίαισ κατεμέρισαν πλήρεισ χαρμονῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:31)
  • χρησμολόγῳ δ’ οὐδεὶσ ἐδίδου κώθωνα φαεινόν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls22)
  • ἀσύμβολον κώθωνα μὴ παραλίμπανε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 3:4)
  • αὕτη δ’ ὀψὲ τῆσ ὡρ́ασ ποτὲ εἰσῆλθεν ἐπὶ κώθωνα πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον εἰώθει δὲ συμπίνειν αἰεὶ αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 45 5:4)
  • Σικελιῶται δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ τὸν κωβιὸν κώθωνα καλοῦντεσ, ὡσ Νίκανδρόσ φησιν ὁ Κολοφώνιοσ ἐν ταῖσ Γλώτταισ καὶ Ἀπολλόδωροσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Σώφρονοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 83 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a Laconian drinking-vessel

Related

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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