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κόσμῳ (kosmo)

κόσμῳ is an Ancient Greek form of κόσμος, meaning “order, ornament; the world”. It is the dative singular masculine noun.

Found 428 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.11.9: … ντὸς ποιούμενοι καὶ τὰ παραγγελλόμενα ὀξέως δεχόμενοι· κάλλιστον γὰρ τόδε καὶ ἀσφαλέστατον, πολλοὺς ὄντας ἑνὶ κόσμῳ χρωμένους φαίνεσθαι.’

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.11.114: … οὐ κατὰ τρόπον βιούσης εἶπέ τις πρὸς τὸν Ζτίλπωνα, ὡς καταισχύνοι αὐτόν· ὁ δέ, οὐ μᾶλλον, εἶπεν, ἢ ἐγὼ ταύτην κοσμῶ.

All forms of κόσμος (declension table)

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.