English Explanatory Dictionary

cothon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.

Word forms

cothon cothons

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κώθων (kṓthōn), rendering a Phoenician term meaning something like "excavated". (Cothon was the name of the island in Carthage's artificial harbor, namesake of the type.)

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