κόσμος

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /kózmos/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /kózmos/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /kózmos/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /kózmos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /kózmos/

Noun

κόσμος (genitive κόσμου) m, second declension; (kosmos)

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

Second declension of κόσμος, κόσμου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόσμος	τὼ κόσμω	οἱ κόσμοι
Genitive	τοῦ κόσμου	τοῖν κόσμοιν	τῶν κόσμων
Dative	τῷ κόσμῳ	τοῖν κόσμοιν	τοῖς κόσμοις
Accusative	τὸν κόσμον	τὼ κόσμω	τοὺς κόσμους
Vocative	κόσμε	κόσμω	κόσμοι

Descendants

English: cosmos

Greek: κόσμος Russian: космос (kósmos) m

References

• LSJ
• Bauer lexicon
• Strong’s concordance number: G2889

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Greek

Noun

κόσμος (kósmos) m,   plural κόσμοι

1. World, the planet we live on.
2. People, the masses.
3. Crowds of people.
4. A historical period, a special set of countries.

   Ο ρωμαϊκός κόσμος. (The Roman world.)