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Cocytus

Definition: Cocytus

Cocytus

Noun

1. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades that was said to be a tributary of the Acheron.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "Cocytus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: Cocytus

Domain	Definition
Literature	Cocytus [Ko-kytus ]. One of the five rivers of hell. The word means the "river of lamentation." The unburied were doomed to wander about its banks for 100 years. (Greek, koku'o, to weep.) "Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream." Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 579. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Synonym: Cocytus

Synonym: River Cocytus (n). (additional references)

Synonyms within Context: Cocytus

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hell	Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Usage: Cocytus

Domain	Title
Books	Crossing Cocytus : poems (reference) (more book examples)
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Expression: Cocytus

Expression using "Cocytus": River Cocytus. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cocytus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
cocytus	10
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Anagrams: Cocytus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-o-s-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: stucco.
	-2 letters: scout.
	-3 letters: cost, cosy, cots, coys, cuts, cyst, oust, outs, scot, scut, toys.
	-4 letters: cos, cot, coy, cut, out, sot, sou, soy, sty, toy, uts, you.
	-5 letters: os, oy, so, to, us, ut, yo.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-o-s-t-u-y"
	+3 letters: accusatory, viscountcy.
	+4 letters: conspicuity, consultancy.
	+5 letters: acoustically, ascomycetous, circuitously, constituency, cryptococcus.
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Alternative Orthography: Cocytus

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 63 79 74 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-. --- -.-. -.--. - ..- ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100011 01111001 01110100 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#99 &#121 &#116 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0063 0079 0074 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

37816991868785

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions

5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography

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