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|etymtx=Grammatical information: m.<br />Meaning: [[order]], [[good behaviour]], [[ornament]] (Il.), [[world-ordening]], [[world]] (Pythag. or Parm.; Kranz Phil. 93, 430ff.), <b class="b2">order of the state, government</b> (IA.); name of the highest officials in Crete (backformation from <b class="b3">κοσμέω</b>?, Leumann Hom. Wörter 285f.; against this Ruijgh L'élément achéen 109).<br />Compounds: Several compp., e. g. <b class="b3">κοσμο-ποιία</b> [[creation of the world]] (Arist.), <b class="b3">κοσμό-πολις</b> m. name of an official of the town (hell.), prop. governing comp. = <b class="b3">ὁ κοσμῶν πόλιν</b>; independent is <b class="b3">κοσμο-πολίτης</b> [[citizen of the world]] (hell.; formed by the Cynics?, v. Wilamowitz Glaube 2, 275); <b class="b3">εὔ-κοσμος</b> [[in good order]] (Sol.).<br />Derivatives: 1. Diminut. <b class="b3">κοσμ-άριον</b>, <b class="b3">-ίδιον</b>, <b class="b3">-αρίδιον</b> [[small ornament]] (late); 2. <b class="b3">κόσμιος</b> <b class="b2">well-ordered, behaving well, moral, quiet</b> (IA.), [[regarding the world]] (Plu., Arr.) with <b class="b3">κοσμιότης</b> [[civilization]] (Att.); 3. <b class="b3">κοσμικός</b> <b class="b2">worldly, earthly, of the world</b> (hell.); 4. <b class="b3">κοσμωτός</b> [[changed in a world]] (hell.); 5. <b class="b3">Κοσμώ</b> f. name of a priestess (Lycurg.); <b class="b3">Κοσμίας</b>, <b class="b3">Κοσμᾶς</b> a. o. PN. - 6. Denomin. verb <b class="b3">κοσμέω</b> [[order]], [[govern]], [[adorn]] (Il.); with several derivv: <b class="b3">κοσμητός</b> [[well ordered]] (η 127; Ammann <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 17); <b class="b3">κόσμησις</b> [[order]], [[ornamentation]] and <b class="b3">κόσμημα</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> (Att.); <b class="b3">κοσμήτωρ</b> [[who orders]], [[commander]] (Il.) and <b class="b3">κοσμητήρ</b> <b class="b2">id.</b> Epigr. ap. Aeschin. 3, 185; s. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 120f.), f. <b class="b3">κοσμήτειρα</b> (Ephesos, Orph.; <b class="b3">-ήτρια</b> H.); <b class="b3">κοσμητής</b> <b class="b2">orderer, commander, who orders, adorns</b>, also name of an official (Att.) with <b class="b3">κοσμητεύω</b> (<b class="b3">-τέω</b>) [[be κοσμητής]] (inscr., pap.), <b class="b3">-τεία</b> (pap.); <b class="b3">κοσμητήριον</b> [[place with toilets]] (Paus.), <b class="b3">κόσμητρον</b> [[broom]] (sch. ); <b class="b3">κοσμητικός</b> [[belonging to adorning]] (Pl., Arist.; Chantraine Ét. sur le vocab. grec 135).<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Formation in <b class="b3">-μος</b> (Schwyzer 492, Chantraine Formation 132); in spite of several attempts not convincingly explained. Many hypotheses of diff. value: to <b class="b3">κεδνός</b>, <b class="b3">Κόδρος</b> (Schulze GGA 1896, 235 = Kl. Schr. 698, Pisani AnFilCl 5, 93f., Kranz Phil. 93, 430ff.); to Lat. [[censeō]] etc. (Froehde KZ 23, 311, Zupitza Die germ. Gutt. 109, Brugmann Distr. 19, Dumézil BSL 42 p. XVI); to Lat. [[corpus]], Slt. <b class="b2">kálpate</b> [[be in order]] (Brugmann IF 28, 358ff.); to Lat. [[cinnus]] [[mixed drink]] (Walde LEW1 s. v.); to <b class="b3">κομψός</b> (WP. 1, 403); from <b class="b3">*χόθμος</b> to IE. <b class="b2">*ghodh-</b> [[unite]], [[be strongly connected]] (Carnoy REGr. 69, 279f.).