Cocytus

 

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• Cocytos
• Kokytos

From Latin Cōcȳtus, from Ancient Greek Κωκυτός (Kōkutós, “lamentation”).

Cocytus

1. A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
   • 1523, John Skelton, A ryght delectable tratyse upon a goodly Garlande or Chapelet of Laurell; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 349, lines 1327–1329:

     By the Stigiall flode, / And the stremes wode / Of Cochitos bottumles well; […]

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 143, lines 686–687:

     All theſe Cocytus bounds vvith ſqualid Reeds, / VVith Muddy Ditches, and vvith deadly VVeeds: […]

• Acheron, Eridanos, Lethe, Phlegethon, Styx

• Cocytean, Cocytian

Borrowed from Latin Cōcȳtus, from Ancient Greek Κωκυτός (Kōkutós).

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Cocytus m

1. (Greek mythology) Cocytus (river in Hades)

From Ancient Greek Κωκυτός (Kōkutós, “lamentation”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koːˈkyː.tus/, [koːˈkyːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈt͡ʃi.tus/, [koˈt͡ʃiːt̪us]

Cōcȳtus m sg (genitive Cōcȳtī); second declension

1. the Cocytus, one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld

Second-declension noun, singular only.