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kothornos

kothornos is the alternative form of cothurnus.

Meaning of cothurnus

Noun

cothurnus (plural cothurni)

  1. A buskin used in ancient tragedy.
  2. (figuratively) The stilted style denoting ancient tragedy.
    • Madame Grandoni had insisted on the fact that she was an actress, and this little speech seemed a glimpse of the cothurnus.1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 410

Forms of kothornos

pluralkothornoi

Questions about kothornos

What is kothornos the alternative form of?
Kothornos is the alternative form of cothurnus.

Words near kothornos in the dictionary

  1. kothis
  2. Kothok
  3. kothon
  4. kothons
  5. kothornoi
  6. kothornos
  7. Koths
  8. koti
  9. Kotick
  10. Koticks
  11. Kotik

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kothornos (page history and authors); cothurnus (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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