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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

  • διὰ τοῦτο οἱ φαλακροὶ οὐ κολοβοί. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 248:1)
  • εἶτα ὁ Ἀντιφίλου λιμὴν καὶ οἱ ὑπὲρ τούτου κρεοφάγοι, κολοβοὶ τὰσ βαλάνουσ καὶ αἱ γυναῖκεσ ἰουδαϊκῶσ ἐκτετμημέναι. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 18:15)
  • μετὰ δὲ Εὐμένουσ λιμένα μέχρι Δειρῆσ καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰσ ἓξ νήσουσ στενῶν ἰχθυοφάγοι καὶ κρεοφάγοι κατοικοῦσι καὶ κολοβοὶ μέχρι τῆσ μεσογαίασ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 26:1)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ οὐ κολοβοὶ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ περιτετμημένοι τινὲσ καθάπερ Αἰγύπτιοι. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 33:11)

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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