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Κοίλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κοίλη

Structure: Κοιλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of koi=los, name of a dh=mos in Attica, Hdt.

Sense

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ κοιλὰσ ἡ ἁλυκή, φρέατα ἀσφάλτου. ἔφυγε δὲ βασιλεὺσ Σοδόμων καὶ βασιλεὺσ Γομόρρασ καὶ ἐνέπεσαν ἐκεῖ, οἱ δὲ καταλειφθέντεσ εἰσ τὴν ὀρεινὴν ἔφυγον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:10)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τετάρτῃ ἐπισυνήχθησαν εἰσ τὸν αὐλῶνα τῆσ εὐλογίασ, ἐκεῖ γὰρ ηὐλόγησαν τὸν Κύριον. διὰ τοῦτο ἐκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Κοιλὰσ εὐλογίασ ἕωσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ταύτησ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 20:26)
  • ὦ κοίλασ πέτρασ γύαλον θερμὸν καὶ παγετῶδεσ, ὥσ σ’ οὐκ ἔμελλον ἄρ’, ὦ τάλασ, λείψειν οὐδέποτ’, ἀλλά μοι καὶ θνῄσκοντι συνείσει. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, choral, strophe 11)
  • ὡρ͂αι δὲ καὶ χῶραι καὶ ἡλικίαι φέρουσι, αἵπερ καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὰσ κοίλασ φλέβασ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 194)
  • Ῥινὸν τρηχὺν καὶ πάχιστον, ὀχθώδεασ Ῥωγμοὺσ ἴσχοντα, αὐλῶνασ ἐπιμήκεασ , ἑτέρασ ἐντομὰσ κοίλασ, ἐπικαρσίουσ, ἄλλασ δὲ λοξὰσ, βαθείασ κάρτα, ἴκελον τὸ ξύμπαν τριπόλῳ νειῷ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 358)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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