Ancient Greek

Noun

κόσμος • ‎(kósmos) m ‎(genitive κόσμου); second declension

1. order
2. lawful order, government
3. mode, fashion
4. ornament, decoration
5. honour, credit
6. ruler
7. world, universe, the earth
8. mankind

Inflection

Descendants

References

• κόσμος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόσμος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόσμος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κόσμος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «κόσμος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κόσμος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2889”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • adornment idem, page 13.
  • array idem, page 41.
  • attire idem, page 51.
  • constitution idem, page 164.
  • costume idem, page 175.
  • creation idem, page 183.
  • decoration idem, page 202.
  • discipline idem, page 229.
  • dress idem, page 252.
  • embellishment idem, page 267.
  • finely idem, page 321.
  • firmament idem, page 322.
  • garb idem, page 353.
  • government idem, page 368.
  • gown idem, page 368.
  • habit idem, page 380.
  • honour idem, page 404.
  • insignia idem, page 444.
  • millinery idem, page 529.
  • nature idem, page 552.
  • order idem, page 578.
  • ornament idem, page 580.
  • polity idem, page 625.
  • raiment idem, page 669.
  • regime idem, page 687.
  • robe idem, page 719.
  • system idem, page 851.
  • tinsel idem, page 877.
  • trappings idem, page 890.
  • trimming idem, page 895.
  • trinket idem, page 895.
  • universe idem, page 923.
  • world idem, page 989.

1. ↑ 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, page 759-760

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόσμος ‎(kósmos), from Proto-Indo-European *muH₂-, *meuH₂- ‎(“to wash, wet”).

Noun

κόσμος • ‎(kósmos) m ‎(plural κόσμοι)

1. Universe, cosmos
2. world, planet Earth
3. society, people, the masses
4. a group of people (geographically, historically, socially)

   Ο ρωμαϊκός κόσμος (the Roman world or the Romans)

   Ζει σε άλλον κόσμο! (He lives in another world!)

Declension

Related terms

• όλος ο κόσμος m ‎(ólos o kósmos, “everybody”)
• ο άλλος κόσμος m ‎(o állos kósmos, “the next world (only with a definite article)”)

External links

• κόσμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el