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Kokytos

Kokytos is the alternative form of Cocytus.

Meaning of Cocytus

Proper noun

Cocytus or the Cocytus

  1. A river of the underworld in Greek mythology.
    • By the Stigiall flode, / And the stremes wode / Of Cochitos bottumles well; […]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...

Origin of Kokytos

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Κωκῡτός (Kōkūtós).

Questions about Kokytos

What is Kokytos the alternative form of?
Kokytos is the alternative form of Cocytus.

Words near Kokytos in the dictionary

  1. kokutai
  2. Kokwulye
  3. Kokyar
  4. kokyet
  5. Kokyo
  6. Kokytos
  7. KOL
  8. kol hakavod
  9. Kol Nidre
  10. Kol Nidres
  11. kola

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kokytos (page history and authors); Cocytus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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