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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κωκῡ́ω (kōkū́ō, “shriek, wail”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔː.kyː.tós/ → /ko.cyˈtos/ → /ko.ciˈtos/
Noun
κωκῡτός • (kōkūtós) m (genitive κωκῡτοῦ); second declension
- lamentation
Inflection
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References
- “κωκυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωκυτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κωκυτός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κωκυτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κωκυτός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κωκυτός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.