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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

  • καὶ λύκων δὲ ὁ περιπατητικόσ, ὥσ φησιν Ἀντίγονοσ ὁ Καρύστιοσ, κατ’ ἀρχὰσ ἐπιδημήσασ παιδείασ ἕνεκα ταῖσ Ἀθήναισ περὶ συμβολικοῦ κώθωνοσ καὶ πόσον ἑκάστη τῶν ἑταιρουσῶν ἐπράττετο μίσθωμα ἀκριβῶσ ἠπίστατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 691)
  • "καὶ ἴσωσ πάντα τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐπιδειπνίδασ ἔλεγον Μακεδόνεσ, κώθωνοσ γὰρ ἡδύσματα ταῦτα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7619)
  • Ἡγήσανδροσ ὁ Δελφὸσ Εὐφορίωνά φησι τὸν ποιητὴν παρὰ Πρυτάνιδι δειπνοῦντα καὶ ἐπιδεικνυμένου τοῦ Πρυτάνιδοσ κιβώριά τινα δοκοῦντα πεποιῆσθαι πολυτελῶσ, τοῦ κώθωνοσ εὖ μάλα προβεβηκότοσ, λαβὼν ἓν τῶν κιβωρίων ὡσ ἐξοινῶν ἐνεούρησε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 542)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἡμεῖσ νήφειν ἐν φυλακῇ τῇδε δυνησόμεθα, ὡσ τῆσ κύλικοσ λεγομένησ κώθωνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 3:3)
  • Θεόπομποσ Στρατιώτισιν ἐγὼ γὰρ ἂν κώθωνοσ ἐκ στρεψαύχενοσ πίοιμι τὸν τράχηλον ἀνακεκλασμένη; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 4:3)

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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