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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Lydian according to Jonkees, but more probably from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.tʰor.nos/ → /ˈko.θor.nos/ → /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
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.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN