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κοὐ (kou)

κοὐ is an Ancient Greek form of οὐ, meaning “not”. It is the adverb.

It can also be a form of πού, “somewhere, I suppose, perhaps”.

Found 195 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 6.22: κοὔ μʼ ἔλαθʼ, οὔ, τὸν ἐμὸν ἕνα τὸν γλυκύν, ὧ ποθόρημαι

Euripides, Cyclops 376: κοὐ πιστά, μύθοις εἰκότ’, οὐδ’ ἔργοις βροτῶν;

Euripides, Hecuba 463: σὺν Δηλιάσιν τε κού-

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.