κόθορνος

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/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.tʰor.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.tʰor.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θor.nos/

Noun

κόθορνος • (kóthornos) m (genitive κοθόρνου); second declension

1. buskin, high boot, which covered the whole foot and half the leg, with thick soles, used by actors to increase their height

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόθορνος; τοῦ κοθόρνου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόθορνος ho kóthornos	τὼ κοθόρνω tṑ kothórnō	οἱ κόθορνοι hoi kóthornoi
Genitive	τοῦ κοθόρνου toû kothórnou	τοῖν κοθόρνοιν toîn kothórnoin	τῶν κοθόρνων tôn kothórnōn
Dative	τῷ κοθόρνῳ tôi kothórnōi	τοῖν κοθόρνοιν toîn kothórnoin	τοῖς κοθόρνοις toîs kothórnois
Accusative	τὸν κόθορνον tòn kóthornon	τὼ κοθόρνω tṑ kothórnō	τοὺς κοθόρνους toùs kothórnous
Vocative	κόθορνε kóthorne	κοθόρνω kothórnō	κόθορνοι kóthornoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cothurnus
  • → English: cothurn (learned)
  • → French: cothurne (learned)
  • → German: Kothurn (learned)
  • → Italian: coturno (learned)
  • → Polish: koturn (learned)
  • → Russian: коту́рн (kotúrn) (learned)
  • → Spanish: coturno (learned)
• Spanish: coturno

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • boot idem, page 89.
  • buskin idem, page 106.
  • shoe idem, page 767.
• 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