κοίτ-η, ἡ,
(κεῖμαι) ={κοῖτος} 1, once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.341 (variant{οἴκῳ})] Refs 8th c.BC+]; bedstead, [[ Inscriptiones Graecae 12.330.16, +others, Wilcken “Chr.” 244.3 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.; especially marriage-bed, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 804 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 17; οὐ γὰρ ἐκ μιᾶς κ. ἔβλαστον [prev. author] “fragment” 546; τᾶς ἀπλήστου κ. ἔρος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 152 (Lyric poetry), etc.; ἀνάνδρου κοίτας λέκτρον [prev. work] 436 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also πετρίνη κοίτη, of a cave, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 160 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τειρομέναν νοσερᾷ κ. on a sick-bed, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 132 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κοίταν δ᾽ ἔχει νέρθεν, of one dead, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1706 (Lyric poetry); κ. σκληρά 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 942d, 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.1: _plural_, ἔννυχοι κ. 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.25; νυμφίδιοι κ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 249 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: metaphorically, of the sea, ἐν μεσημβριναῖς κοίταις.. εὕδοι πεσών [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 566 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the bed of a river, [[ 6th c.AD: Procopius Caesariensis Historicus “de Aedificiis” 5.5, 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in Aristotelis Physica commentaria - Comm. in Arist. Graeca” 586.21, 6th c.AD: Lydus, Joannes Laurentius Historicus “de Mensibus” 4.10. ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
__2 lair of a wild beast, nest of a bird, etc., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 155 (Lyric poetry); χελιδόνων 6th c.AD: Aëtius Medicus 16.15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ποιεῖσθαι, of the spider, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 623a12 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the fish ἐξώκοιτος, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Fragmenta” 171.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]