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Etymology edit

Solmsen suggests derivation from unattested *κῆϝος (*kêwos, fire), from the same root of καίω (kaíō, to burn), which must be wrong as it is a Pre-Greek name. Fick compares this word with other placenames like Τέως (Téōs) and Κόως (Kóōs).

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Proper noun edit

Κέως (Kéōsf (genitive Κέω); Attic declension

  1. Ceos; Kea, Cyclades, Greece

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Descendants edit

  • Greek: Κέα (Kéa); Τζία (Tzía)
  • Latin: Ceōs, Cēa

Further reading edit

  • Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Κέως”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Κέως”, 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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,005
  • 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