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PRONUNCIATION OF KOTTABOS

kottabos  [ˈkɒtəˌbɒs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KOTTABOS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kottabos is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KOTTABOS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

kottabos

Kottabos

Kottabos was a game of skill played at ancient Greek and Etruscan symposia, especially in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The game is played by flinging wine lees at targets. The player would utter the name of the object of his affection. The game appears to have been of Sicilian origin, but it spread through Greece from Thessaly to Rhodes, and was especially fashionable at Athens. Dionysius Chalcus, Alcaeus, Anacreon, Pindar, Bacchylides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Antiphanes make frequent and familiar allusion to the cottabus – and it appears on vases from the era; but in the writers of the Roman and Alexandrian period such reference as occurs shows that the fashion had died out. In Latin literature it is almost entirely unknown.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KOTTABOS


antiboss
ˌæntɪˈbɒs
boss
bɒs
deboss
dɪˈbɒs
emboss
ɪmˈbɒs
fynbos
ˈfeɪnbɒs
Lesbos
ˈlɛzbɒs
mebos
ˈmeɪbɒs
ovibos
ˈəʊvɪˌbɒs
Phobos
ˈfəʊbɒs
rooibos
ˈrɔɪˌbɒs
underboss
ˈʌndəˌbɒs
Villa-Lobos
ˈviːlɑːˈləʊbɒs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KOTTABOS

kotahitanga
kotare
kotch
koto
kotuku
kotukutuku
kotwal
koulibiaca
koumis
koumiss
koumyss
kouprey
koura
kouroi
kouros
Kourou
kousso

WORDS THAT END LIKE KOTTABOS

baalebos
Barbados
Campos
Carlos
chaos
Comoros
cos
Davos
Eos
Gros
Jos
Juan Carlos
Laos
logos
Marcos
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pros
rhombos
Santos
Shabbos

Synonyms and antonyms of kottabos in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kottabos» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KOTTABOS

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Translator English - Chinese

kottabos
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

KOTTABOS
570 millions of speakers

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kottabos
510 millions of speakers

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kottabos
380 millions of speakers
ar

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kottabos
280 millions of speakers

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kottabos
278 millions of speakers

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kottabos
270 millions of speakers

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kottabos
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kottabos
220 millions of speakers

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Kottabos
190 millions of speakers

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KOTTABOS
180 millions of speakers

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kottabos
130 millions of speakers

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kottabos
85 millions of speakers

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Kottabos
85 millions of speakers
vi

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kottabos
80 millions of speakers

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kottabos
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोट्टबॉस
75 millions of speakers

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kottabos
70 millions of speakers

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kottabos
65 millions of speakers

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kottabos
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

kottabos
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kottabos
30 millions of speakers
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kottabos
15 millions of speakers
af

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kottabos
14 millions of speakers
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kottabos
10 millions of speakers
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kottabos
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KOTTABOS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KOTTABOS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kottabos

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KOTTABOS»

Discover the use of kottabos in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kottabos and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Echoes from Kottabos;
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Sir Edward Sullivan, 2012
2
Echoes from Kottabos
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Ireland) College (Dublin, 2009
3
Coins, Bodies, Games, and Gold: The Politics of Meaning in ...
For our purposes, what is worth noting is the close association of the grace and good form of the successful kottabos toss with the fulfillment of erotic desire, whatever the precise mechanics might have been. Finally, kottabos, like ball- playing, ...
Leslie Kurke, 1999
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Kottabos
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, 2010
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Kottabos. [a College Miscellany
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, 2012
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Echoes from Kottabos
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, 2012
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The Art of Antiquity: Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora
Two sympotic vessels: A kalyx-krater with Dionysos and a kylix with youth playing kottabos (Figs. 177a, b) P 1855, P 1274 (Painting nos. 43, 44) The Group of Polygnotos: undetermined (P 1855); manner of the Euergides Painter: Group of ...
John K. Papadopoulos, 2007
8
The Symposion in Ancient Greek Society and Thought
The conviction of Theramenes at the behest of a former friend in a kangaroo court is an instantiation of that betrayal, poignantly articulated by the kottabos throw. When reporting this episode, Xenophon comments that such apophthegms are ...
Fiona Hobden, 2013
9
Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and ...
And wine-dregs is the wet substance left behind from the drained drinking-cup, which the players used to throw from above into the kottabos-basin with a closed fist. And the prize set for the winners in the drinking was also called “kottabos,” ...
Eleanor Dickey Associate Professor of Classics Columbia University, 2007
10
Kottabos V2 (1877)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KOTTABOS»

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Our Ancestors Were Cooler Than Us
The next game I'd love to try is Kottabos from ancient Greece. If anyone out there has a knack for making metal sculptures and wants to aid in ... «My New Orleans, Jul 15»
2
How to Recreate a Sloppy Ancient Greek Drinking Game
NEW ORLEANS — More than 2,000 years before the invention of beer pong, the ancient Greeks had a game called kottabos to pass the time at ... «Yahoo News, Jan 15»
3
Art Professor Uses Ancient Beer Pong and 3D Printing to Teach …
kottabos The Greeks used the game, much as college students do today, to spice up their drinking binges. At what were referred to as symposia ... «3DPrint.com, Jan 15»
4
Expert reveals how to play kottabos, the ancient Greek DRINKING …
The game, known as kottabos, involved men gathered in a circle flinging dregs of wine at a target in the centre of the room from a special cup ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
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The Bryn Mawr Painter
Playing the game of kottabos, he's flinging the wine dregs from his kylix to hit a target. ks5a0186. More than two thousand years later, Joseph ... «Bryn Mawr Now, Sep 14»
6
Italian police recover Etruscan treasures
In addition, the find includes statues, some originally covered in gold as well as bronze weapons, ceramic pots and a rare bronze kottabos, an ... «Reuters, Jun 13»
7
Drinking Games & Monsters: The History of Sicilian Wine
Kottabos was played toward the end of the party, when celebrants had emptied their cups and spirits ran high. The aim of the game was for ... «Wine-Searcher, Apr 13»
8
The Weird and Wild Wine-Drinking Games of History
No doubt tricky, but no contest of the eye and arm quite matched the thoroughly baffling ancient Greek game of kottabos, bizarre and frustrating ... «Wine Spectator, Apr 13»
9
2012 Presidential Debates: Drinking Games That Make Politics …
Drinking games are thought to have originated in ancient Greece with games such as Kottabos, which involved flinging wine from cups at ... «International Business Times, Oct 12»
10
Those Folks street wear, a “lifestyle brand”
... Those Folks is planning an event with the Santa Monica based rap group Warm Brew, in order to promote the group's debut album 'Kottabos ... «The Corsair, May 12»

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