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Cocytus
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English
Alternative forms
en Cocytos Kokytos
Etymology
en la Cōcȳtus, from en grc Κωκυτός lamentation.
Pronunciation
en /koʊˈsaɪtəs/ /koʊˈkaɪtəs/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Cocytus.wav Southern England
Proper noun
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A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
Laurell 349 1327–1329 By the Stigiall flode, / And the stremes wode / Of Cochitos bottumles well;
I 13 A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.
4 143 686–687 All theſe Cocytus bounds vvith ſqualid Reeds, / VVith Muddy Ditches, and vvith deadly VVeeds:
9 August 1987 Mary Hawthorne In Short: Fiction https://web.archive.org/web/20150524210252/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/09/books/in-short-fiction-854987.html Ms. Carol Orlock uses her sensuous pictorial imagination to advantage in rendering the chilling underworld landscapes, where we embark as if on an eerie pleasure cruise down the Cocytus.
en 1998 w:Edoardo Sanguineti Canto xxxiii: Count Ugolino della Gherardesca and Others w:Allen Mandelbaum; Anthony Oldcorn; Charles Ross Inferno: A Canto-by-Canto Commentary la:Lectura Dantis 1 Berkeley, Calif. w:University of California Press 430 https://archive.org/details/lecturadantisinf0000unse/page/430/mode/1up 0-520-21249-5 In fact, the demonic quality of the episode of Ugolino, in the spectacular representation of cannibalism as well as in the veil through which Ugolino’s story is perceived, is the very demonicity of Cocytus at large.
Coordinate terms
en Acheron, en Eridanus, en Lethe, en Phlegethon, en Styx Greek mythology
en Antenora, en Ptolomea, en Caina, en Judecca Dante's Divine Comedy
Derived terms
en Cocytean, en Cocytian
Translations
river of the underworld
Armenian: hy
Catalan: ca Cocit m
Dutch: nl Cocytus m
Finnish: fi Kokytos
French: fr Cocyte m
Georgian: ka
German: de Kokytos m
Greek:
Ancient Greek: grc Κωκυτός m
Hungarian: hu
Italian: it Cocito m
Polish: pl Kocyt m, pl Kokytos m
Russian: ru Коци́т, ru Коки́тос m
Spanish: es Cocito m
en Greek mythology Rivers
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from nl la Cōcȳtus, from nl grc Κωκυτός.
Pronunciation
nl
Proper noun
m
nl Greek mythology en Cocytus river in Hades
nl Rivers
Latin
Etymology
la Cōcȳtus :uder grc:Κωκυτός<t:lamentation> + 1
Pronunciation
Cōcȳtus
Proper noun
Cōcȳtus<2>
the en Cocytus, one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld
Declension
Cōcȳtus<2>
la Greek mythology Rivers