κόρος

koros

boy, lad

Appears 48 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

κόρος (B), , Ion. κοῦρος, as always in Hom., Pi., and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. E. Alc. 904), sts. in late Gr., Rev.Et.Gr. 42.247 (Varna); Dor. κῶρος Theoc. 15.120:—A. boy, lad (even before birth, ὃν . . γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι Il. 6.59, cf. Call. Del. 212), κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης Il. 24.347; πρωθῆβαι Od. 8.262; τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει Il. 4.321; σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις A. Fr. 43: in mock Trag., Οἰδίπου . . παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω Ar. Fr. 558: rare in Prose, Pl. Lg. 772a; male infant, ἔτεκε κόρον Conon 33.3, cf. IG 42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, 12.196, al.; κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510,551,562; λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ. E. Supp. 356; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il. 1.470, al.; at Sparta, κόροι, = ἱππεῖς, Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.1.138. 2. with gen. of pr. n., son, Od. 19.523, etc.; Θησέως κ. S. Ph. 562, cf. Tr. 644 (lyr.); τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι E. Supp. 107; Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες, Eub. 10.6. 3. puppet, doll, used in Magic, S. Fr. 536. II. shoot, sprout, of a tree, κόρους πλεκτοὺς . . μυρρίνης Lysipp. 9, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113, EM 276.28, Hsch.; cf. κοῦρος (B). III. for Comp. v. κουρότερος. (Acc. to Eust. 582.20, al., from κείρω, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but κόρ (ϝ) ος (masc. of κόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)
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