Word: 'cosmos' • Extended Annotations
Word: 'cosmos' • Extended Annotations
Ancient Greek κόσμος kosmos "world, the earth, human collective existence"
Also "adornment"
the verb kosmein "to dispose, prepare" refers to various notions of order, from ordering troops for battle to establishing a regime, to adorning/equipping (esp. for women); thus, it is also the ancestor of cosmetic "the art of beautifying, or anointing or decorating the human body"
| ~☉~ | lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context |
| ⚜ | classic definition |
| ☣ | artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense |