Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.boy, lad (even before birth, “ὃν . . γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι” Il.6.59, cf. Call.Del.212), “κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης” Il.24.347; “πρωθῆβαι” Od.8.262; “τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει” Il.4.321; “σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις” A.Fr.43: in mock Trag., “Οἰδίπου . . παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω” Ar.Fr.558: rarein Prose, Pl.Lg.772a; male infant, “ἔτεκε κόρον” Conon 33.3, cf. IG42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, 12.196, al.; κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510,551,562; “λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ.” E.Supp.356; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il.1.470, al.; at Sparta, κόροι, = ἱππεῖς, Archyt. ap. Stob.4.1.138.

2. with gen. of pr. n., son, Od.19.523, etc.; “Θησέως κ.” S.Ph.562, cf. Tr.644 (lyr.); “τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι” E.Supp.107; Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες, Eub.10.6.

3. puppet, doll, used in Magic, S.Fr.536.

II. shoot, sprout, of a tree, “κόρους πλεκτοὺς . . μυρρίνης” Lysipp.9, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113, EM276.28, Hsch.; cf. κοῦρος (B).

III. for Comp. v. κουρότερος. (Acc. to Eust.582.20, al., from κείρω, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but κόρ（ϝ）ος (masc. of κόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.）