microcosmos

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Contents

1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
2 Latin
- 2.1 Noun

English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

micro- +‎ cosmos

Noun [edit]

microcosmos (plural microcosmoi or microcosmoses)

A small or microscopic cosmos; a microcosm.
- 1916, Classical Philology (University of Chicago Press), volume 11, page 222:
  
  So the double men of Aristophanes are microcosmoi (p. 566); as the world is divided, so are they.

Latin [edit]

Noun [edit]

microcosmōs

accusative plural of microcosmus

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