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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kh₃-to-s, from root *keh₃-. Probably related to Proto-Celtic *katus (“battle”) and Proto-Germanic *haþuz (“battle, fight”) from *kéh₃-tus. Perhaps also to Old Church Slavonic котора (kotora, “quarrel”), Czech katiti se (“to be annoyed”) and Sanskrit शत्रु (śatru, “enemy”), problematic because ś can only come from *ḱ.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.tos/ → /ˈko.tos/ → /ˈko.tos/
Noun
κότος • (kótos) m (genitive κότου); second declension
- grudge, rancour, animosity, ill will
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Further reading
- “κότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κότος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κότος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κότος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κότος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963