ΜΕΤΕΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΝΤΟ, μετεκοσμησαντο
METEKOSMĒSANTO, metekosmēsanto
Sounds Like: meh-teh-kos-MAY-san-toh
Translations: they rearranged, they adorned, they ordered, they changed the arrangement
From the root: ΜΕΤΑΚΟΣΜΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the prefixes 'μετά' (meta, meaning 'with, among, after, change') and 'ἐκ' (ek, meaning 'out of, from'), combined with the verb 'κοσμέω' (kosmeō, meaning 'to arrange, adorn, order'). The overall meaning is to rearrange, to change the order or arrangement of something, or to adorn/order something differently. It is used to describe an action where a previous order or state is altered or improved upon.
Inflection: Aorist, Middle Voice, Indicative Mood, 3rd Person Plural
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 4 — 8:291
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΜΕΤΑΚΟΣΜΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΜΕΤΑΚΟΣΜΕΩ — to adorn, to arrange, to set in order
- ΜΕΤΑΚΟΣΜΗΣΕΙΝ — to rearrange, to reorder, to change the arrangement of
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