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κολοβός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολοβός κολοβόν

Structure: κολοβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/los

Sense

  1. docked, curtailed
  2. maimed, mutilated

Declension

First/Second 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

  • τά τε γὰρ δύο οὐ κολοβὰ θατέρου ἀφαιρουμένου ἑνόσ οὐ γὰρ ἴσον τὸ καλόβωμα καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν οὐδέποτ’ ἐστίν οὐδ’ ὅλωσ ἀριθμὸσ οὐδείσ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 245:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ οὐδ’ ὅσα ὅλα, οὐδὲ ταῦτα ὁτουοῦν μορίου στερήσει κολοβά. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 247:3)

Synonyms

  1. maimed

Related

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

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