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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.), [[order of the state]], [[government]] (IA.); name of the highest officials in Crete (backformation from [[κοσμέω]]?, 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. [[κόσμιος]] <b class="b2">well-ordered, behaving well, moral, quiet</b> (IA.), [[regarding the world]] (Plu., Arr.) with [[κοσμιότης]] [[civilization]] (Att.); 3. [[κοσμικός]] <b class="b2">worldly, earthly, of the world</b> (hell.); 4. [[κοσμωτός]] [[changed in a world]] (hell.); 5. [[Κοσμώ]] f. name of a priestess (Lycurg.); [[Κοσμίας]], [[Κοσμᾶς]] a. o. PN. - 6. Denomin. verb [[κοσμέω]] [[order]], [[govern]], [[adorn]] (Il.); with several derivv: [[κοσμητός]] [[well ordered]] (η 127; Ammann <b class="b3">Μνήμης χάριν</b> 1, 17); [[κόσμησις]] [[order]], [[ornamentation]] and [[κόσμημα]] <b class="b2">id.</b> (Att.); [[κοσμήτωρ]] [[who orders]], [[commander]] (Il.) and [[κοσμητήρ]] <b class="b2">id.</b> Epigr. ap. Aeschin. 3, 185; s. Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 120f.), f. [[κοσμήτειρα]] (Ephesos, Orph.; <b class="b3">-ήτρια</b> H.); [[κοσμητής]] <b class="b2">orderer, commander, who orders, adorns</b>, also name of an official (Att.) with [[κοσμητεύω]] (<b class="b3">-τέω</b>) [[be κοσμητής]] (inscr., pap.), <b class="b3">-τεία</b> (pap.); [[κοσμητήριον]] [[place with toilets]] (Paus.), [[κόσμητρον]] [[broom]] (sch. ); [[κοσμητικός]] [[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 [[κεδνός]], [[Κόδρος]] (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 [[κομψός]] (WP. 1, 403); from <b class="b3">*χόθμος</b> to IE. <b class="b2">*ghodh-</b> [[unite]], [[be strongly connected]] (Carnoy REGr. 69, 279f.).