Greek-and-Roman-mythical-names-Letter-C-K

 

Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

I looked at the names of these persons from a Turkish perspective!

Letter C/K:

Tufts word	Meaning	Turkic word	Meaning	Other info
Cabarnus	a mythical personage of the island of Paros, who revealed to Demeter the fact of her daughter having been carried off, and from whom the island of Paros was said to have been called Cabarnis. (Steph. Byz. s. v.Πάρος.) From Hesychius (s. v.Κάβαρνοι) it would seem that, in Paros, Cabarnus was the name for any priest of Demeter.	Kabar-:	to swell, to surge > gebe: pregnant	related to Cabeiri, from Aravic root Kabir (big) / Beekes laitet den Namen der Kabiren aus vorgriechisch *kabary“
Cabeiri	see above Cabarnus
Caicus	a river	kayik	boat, oar
Calyce	three mythical beings, female	KALIK	the heavens, sky	kök-kalik
Caracalla	Roman emperor	Kara kulak	black ears	there is a cat race called caracal derived from Turkish Kara Kulak
Caractacus	Caratacus, king of the British tribe of the Silures	Kara: black	Taku: bird, hen	i have already written a blog about him and Saratacos: yellow bird
Carcinus	the father of Agathocles.	Karkin: mixed?		one of the Oghuz tribes, meaning to overflow / Agathocles: Agaç oğlu?=the son of a tree
Centauri	that is, the bullkillers, are according to the earliest accounts a race of men who inhabited the mountains and forests of Thessaly.	tau: montain	eri: (its) soldier	er: soldier/man
Ceyx	Κήϋξ, lord of Trachis, was connected by friendship with Heracles.	keyik	wild animal
Chariclo	A nymph, the wife of Eueres and mother of Teiresias. It was at her request that Teiresias, who had been blinded by Athena, obtained from this goddess the power to understand the voices of the birds, and to walk with his black staff as safely as if he saw.	Kara	black
Charon	a son of Erebos, the aged and dirty ferryman in the lower world, who conveyed in his boat the shades of the dead	kari	old	kara: black
Charondas	Χαρώνδας, was a celebrated lawgiver of Catania in Sicily.	KARINDAŠ?	brother	Kara: brother
Charops	bright-eyed or joyful-looking, a surname of Heracles,	KARIK-:	to dazzle	<kar=? (snow) because of very bright snow
Cilix	（Κίλιξ), a son of Agenor and Telephassa. He and his brothers Cadmus and Phoenix were sent out by their father in search of Europa, who had been carried off by Zeus.	KILIÇ	Sword	KIL-: to create, to cut / -IK: suffix (für „done“ KILIK: is already cut
Cisseus	a king in Thrace,	KISI	KISIG: captured	KISGA: short
Clanis	the name of two mythical beings, one is a kentaur	Oglan	son, grandson
Codomannus	Darius III	KODAMAN	big
Colaxais	an ancient king of the Scythians	çolak: cripple	at the same time KOLAK/QOLAK: he who has only 1 arm	Proto-Turkic word kolak: one-handed (Starostin/Dybo)
Comanus	one of the ministers of Ptolemy Physcon	Cuman	An old Turkic tribal confederation	Cumania: a fortress whose name was mentioned by Pliny
Corycia	*Kwruki/a or Κωρυκίς), a nymph, who became by Apollo the mother of Lycorus or Lycoreus, and from whom the Corycian cave in mount Parnassus	Koru	to protect/to fence	koruk: already fenced, protected area (a cave is a protected area)
Corudos	a surname of Apollo, under which the god had a temple eighty stadia from Corone, on the sea-coast	Koru	to protect/to fence
Coryphaea	the goddess who inhabits the summit of the mountain, a surname of Artemis, under which she had a temple on mount Coryphaeon, near Epidaurus.	koru	to protect/to fence
Coryphasia	a surname of Athena, derived from the promontory of Coryphasion, on which she had a sanctuary.	koru	to protect/to fence
Corythallia	a surname of Artemis at Sparta, at whose festival of the Tithenidia the Spartan boys were carried into her sanctuary.	koru	to protect/to fence
Corythus	An Italian hero, a son of Jupiter, and husband of Electra, the daughter of Atlas, by whom he became the father of Jasius and Dardanus. He is described as king of Tuscia, and as the founder of Corythus.	koru	to protect/to fence
Cosingas	Thracian king	košun	soldier, army	Mongolian kauçin: protecting trooper/Coxinga: a Japanese/Chinese title meaning Lord of the Imperial Surname AND I Have written a blog about that name
Cotiso	a king of the Dacians, who was conquered in the reign of Augustus by Lentulus. (Flor. 4.12; Hor. Carm. 3.8.18.) He seems to be the same as the Cotiso, king of the Getae, to whom, according to M. Antony, Augustus betrothed his daughter Julia, and whose daughter Augustus himself sought in marriage.	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	a Thracian divinity, whose festival, the Cotyttia (Dict. of Ant. s. v.), resembled that of the Phrygian Cybele, and was celebrated on hills with riotous proceedings. In later times her worship was introduced at Athens and Corinth, and was connected, like that of Dionysus, with licentious frivolity. Her worship appears to have spread even as far as Italy and Sicily. Those who celebrated her festival were called βάπται, from the purifications which were originally connected with the solemnity. (Strab. x. p.470; Hesych. Suid. s. vv. Κότυς, Διασώτης; Horat. Epod. 17.56; Juv. 2.92; Virg. Catal.5.19; A. Meineke, Quaest. Scen. p. 41, &c.)	Kotuz	Old woman/widow
Cotys	1. A king of Paphlagonia, seems to have been the same whom Xenophon (Xen. Anab. 5.5.12, &c.) calls Corylas	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	2. King of Thrace from B. C. 382 to 358. (See Suid. s.v. where his reign is said to have lasted twenty-four years.) It is not, however, till towards the end of this period that we find anything recorded of him. In B. C. 364 he appears	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	3. A king of the Odrysae in Thrace. He was originally an ally of Rome, but was forced into an alliance against her with Perseus, to whom he gave hostages for his fidelity, and supplied a force of 2000 men.	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	4. A king of Thrace, took part against Caesar with Pompey, and sent him a body of auxiliaries under his son Sadales in B. C. 48. (	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	5. Son of Rhoemetalces, king of Thrace. On the death of Rhoemetalces his dominions were divided by Augustus between his brother Rhescuporis and his son Cotys	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	6. A king of a portion of Thrace, and perhaps one of the sons of No. 5	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cotys	7. King of the Bosporus, which he received from the Romans on the expulsion of his brother Mithridates.	KOTUZ/KOTIZ	yak bull
Cycnus	There are 5 Cycnus in this book 4 of them have to do with swan.	Kugu	swan	KUU: Finnish Moon Deity
Cyllarus	a beautiful centaur, who was married to Hylonome, and was killed at the wedding feast of Peirithous. (Ov. Met. 12.393, &c.) The horse of Castor was likewise called Cyllarus. (Verg. G. 3.90; V. Fl. 1.426;	Kula	Light yellow - brown color of a horse	-r-: filling letter?
Cynibellinus	one of the kings of Britain in the reign of Claudius, the capital of whose kingdom was Camalodunum. (Colchester or Maldon.) He was the father of Caractacus, Togodumnus, and Adminius.	gün: day		i have already written about his name and the name of Caratacus in my blog
Cynurus	Kunouros), a son of Perseus, who is said to have led colonists from Argos into Cynuria, a valley between Argolis and Laconia. (Paus. 3.2.3.)	Kongur/Konur	red brown, dark brown color of a horse

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