κότος

Ancient Greek

Uncertain. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *kh₃-to-s, from root *keh₃-. Probably related to Proto-Celtic *katus (“battle”) and Proto-Germanic *haþuz (“battle, fight”) from *kéh₃-tus. Perhaps also to Old Church Slavonic котора (kotora, “quarrel”), Czech katiti se (“to be annoyed”) and Sanskrit शत्रु (śatru, “enemy”), problematic because ś can only come from *ḱ.^[1]

κότος • (kótos) m (genitive κότου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κότος ho kótos	τὼ κότω tṑ kótō	οἱ κότοι hoi kótoi
Genitive	τοῦ κότου toû kótou	τοῖν κότοιν toîn kótoin	τῶν κότων tôn kótōn
Dative	τῷ κότῳ tôi kótōi	τοῖν κότοιν toîn kótoin	τοῖς κότοις toîs kótois
Accusative	τὸν κότον tòn kóton	τὼ κότω tṑ kótō	τοὺς κότους toùs kótous
Vocative	κότε kóte	κότω kótō	κότοι kótoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κότος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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