κόθορνος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Probably a loanword.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.tʰor.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.tʰor.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/
Noun
κόθορνος • (kóthornos) m (genitive κοθόρνου); second declension
- buskin, high boot, which covered the whole foot and half the leg, with thick soles, used by actors to increase their height
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κόθορνος ho kóthornos |
τὼ κοθόρνω tṑ kothórnō |
οἱ κόθορνοι hoi kóthornoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κοθόρνου toû kothórnou |
τοῖν κοθόρνοιν toîn kothórnoin |
τῶν κοθόρνων tôn kothórnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κοθόρνῳ tôi kothórnōi |
τοῖν κοθόρνοιν toîn kothórnoin |
τοῖς κοθόρνοις toîs kothórnois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κόθορνον tòn kóthornon |
τὼ κοθόρνω tṑ kothórnō |
τοὺς κοθόρνους toùs kothórnous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόθορνε kóthorne |
κοθόρνω kothórnō |
κόθορνοι kóthornoi | ||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Descendants
- → Latin: cothurnus (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- κόθορνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόθορνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόθορνος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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