kostos

Kostos is the transliteration used in Latin-script texts for the Greek noun κόστος, meaning cost or expense. In Greek, the word denotes the price of goods, the cost of production, or any financial outlay.

The term derives from Ancient Greek κόστος and is used in Modern Greek as κόστος. It is widely employed in economics and accounting to refer to the value of resources consumed to produce goods or services.

In Greek, phrases such as κόστος παραγωγής (production cost) and κόστος ζωής (cost of living) illustrate its common usage. When Greek words are rendered in English texts without diacritics, κόστος is often written as kostos or kóstos.

Beyond its function as a lexical item, kostos does not denote a separate academic discipline; it remains a translation of the Greek concept for readers of Greek-language materials. It may appear in glossaries, translation notes, or bilingual texts.

See also: cost, Greek language, transliteration of Greek.