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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Κοίλη Κοίλᾱ Κοῖλαι
Genitive Κοίλης Κοίλαιν Κοιλῶν
Dative Κοίλῃ Κοίλαιν Κοίλαις
Accusative Κοίλην Κοίλᾱ Κοίλᾱς
Vocative Κοίλη Κοίλᾱ Κοῖλαι

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

  • χωροῦσ’ αὗται πάνυ πολλαὶ διὰ τῶν κοίλων καὶ τῶν δασέων, αὗται πλάγιαι. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests11)
  • πιμπλαμένων δὲ τῶν κοίλων καὶ ζευγνυμένων γεφύραισ ὅσα χείμαρροι διέκοπτον ἢ φάραγγεσ, ὕψοσ τε τῶν ἑκατέρωθεν ἴσον καὶ παράλληλον λαμβανόντων, ὁμαλὴν καὶ καλὴν ὄψιν εἶχε δι’ ὅλου τὸ ἔργον. (Plutarch, Caius Gracchus, chapter 7 1:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε σὺν κώθωνι θοῆσ διὰ σέλματα νηὸσ φοίτα καὶ κοίλων πώματ’ ἄφελκε κάδων, ἄγρει δ’ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἀπὸ τρυγόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 3:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε, σὺν κώθωνι θοῆσ διὰ σέλματα νηὸσ φοίτα καὶ κοΐλων πώματ’ ἄφελκε κάδων, ἄγρει δ’ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἀπὸ τρυγόσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 16)
  • πλήρησ ἐλπίδοσ ἐστίν, ἄκροισ δ’ ἐπὶ χείλεσιν ἄσθμα ἐμφαίνει κοίλων ἔνδοθεν ἐκ λαγόνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 54a1)

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

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