Κῶς

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Κόως (Kóōs)

Etymology

First attested in the Iliad. Possibly of West Semitic origin; according to Astour, from Proto-Semitic *kôs (“owl”), the source of Hebrew כוס (“little owl”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ːs/ → /kos/ → /kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kos/

Proper noun

Κῶς • (Kôs) f (genitive Κῶ); Attic declension

1. Kos, an island in the Dodecanese

Inflection

Attic second declension of ἡ Κῶς; τῆς Κῶ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Κῶς hē Kôs
Genitive	τῆς Κῶ tês Kô
Dative	τῇ Κῷ têi Kôi
Accusative	τὴν Κῶ / Κῶν tḕn Kô(n)
Vocative	Κῶς Kôs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κῷος (Kôios)

Descendants

• Greek: Κως (Kos)
• Italian: Coo

References

• “Κῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Κῶς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• “Κῶς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G2972 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,007