Κῶς

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Ancient Greek

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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First attested in the Iliad. Possibly of West Semitic origin; according to Astour, from Proto-Semitic *kôs (owl), the source of Hebrew כוס (little owl).[1]

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Κῶς (Kôsf (genitive Κῶ); Attic declension

  1. Kos, an island in the Dodecanese

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Greek: Κως (Kos)
  • Italian: Coo

References

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  • Κῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Κῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Κῶς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Κῶς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
  • G2972 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007
  1. ^ Bernal, M. (2020). Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilation Volume III: The Linguistic Evidence. United States: Rutgers University Press.