κώθων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, probably of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.tʰɔːn/ → /ˈko.θon/ → /ˈko.θon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̌ː.tʰɔːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.tʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.θon/

Noun

κώθων • (kṓthōn) m (genitive κώθωνος); third declension

1. Laconian drinking vessell used by soldiers
2. drinking bout, carousal
3. name of the inner harbour at Carthage

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κώθων; τοῦ κώθωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κώθων ho kṓthōn	τὼ κώθωνε tṑ kṓthōne	οἱ κώθωνες hoi kṓthōnes
Genitive	τοῦ κώθωνος toû kṓthōnos	τοῖν κωθώνοιν toîn kōthṓnoin	τῶν κωθώνων tôn kōthṓnōn
Dative	τῷ κώθωνῐ tôi kṓthōni	τοῖν κωθώνοιν toîn kōthṓnoin	τοῖς κώθωσῐ / κώθωσῐν toîs kṓthōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κώθωνᾰ tòn kṓthōna	τὼ κώθωνε tṑ kṓthōne	τοὺς κώθωνᾰς toùs kṓthōnas
Vocative	κώθων kṓthōn	κώθωνε kṓthōne	κώθωνες kṓthōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωθωνία (kōthōnía)
• κωθωνίζω (kōthōnízō)
• κωθώνιον (kōthṓnion)

 

Descendants

• → English: kothon (learned)
• → Etruscan: 𐌒𐌖𐌕𐌖𐌌 (qutum)
• → Latin: cothō

Further reading

• “κώθων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κώθων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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