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κῶθα ποτήρια

1 κῶθα

κῶθα· ποτήρια, Hsch.

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2 κώθων

κώθων, - ωνος

Grammatical information: n.

Meaning: `name of a Laconian drinking set (Archil., Ar., X., inscr.), `drinking feast, feast' (LXX, Thasos); also (like κῶθος) = κωβιός (Sicilian; Nic., Apollod. ap. Ath. 7,309c); also name of the inner harbour of Carthage (Str., App.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. κωθωνο-πλύται pl. `washer of the fish κώθων ( ?)' (Sophr.).

Derivatives: Diminutive κωθώνιον (inscr. V^a etc.); κωθωνία `deep drink' (Aret.; Scheller Oxytonierung 41); κωθωνίζομαι `drink (strongly)' (Arist., hell.) with κωθων-ισμός, - ιστής, - ιστήριον (Arist.). - Also κῶθα ποτήρια H.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: Uncertain. Supposition in Bq and WP. 1, 366: to κῶος, κύαθος etc. (improb.); an other hypothesis s. κηθίς. Cf. also Brandenstein Sprache 2, 182. Fur. 199 compares κώδων s.v. He further compares Mingrel. koto `cup', Georg. kotoxi `id.' I think that the word is Pre-Greek.

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Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό) > κώθων

κώθα — κῶθα (Α) (κατά τον Ησύχ.) «ποτήρια». [ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κώθων «είδος ποτηριού με μικρές λαβές και παχύ στόμιο»] … Dictionary of Greek