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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

  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δ’ ἐν τῷ Συμποσίῳ φησὶν ὅτι οὐδὲν κολοβὸν προσφέρομεν πρὸσ τοὺσ θεούσ, ἀλλὰ τέλεια καὶ ὅλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 5:1)
  • "διὸ καὶ ταύτῃ κολοβόν ἐστιν, ῥύγχοσ δὲ ὀξύτερον καὶ μεῖζον ἢ ὄρνισ ἔχει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 71 1:4)
  • χερσὶν ἔχω κολοβὸν κύλικοσ τρύφοσ ἀμφὶσ ἐαγόσ, ἀνδρῶν δαιτυμόνων ναυάγιον, οἱᾶ́ τε πολλὰ πνεῦμα Διωνύσοιο πρὸσ Ὕβριοσ ἔκβαλεν ἀκτάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 112)
  • μὴ κολοβὸν εἶναι τὴν φύσιν ἀλλὰ τὴν ἔμψυχον φύσιν ἔχειν τὸ μὲν λογικὸν τὸ δ’ ἄλογον, ἕτεροσ ἀξιώσει τὴν ἔμψυχον φύσιν ἔχειν τὸ μὲν φανταστικὸν τὸ δ’ ἀφαντασίωτον, καὶ τὸ μὲν αἰσθητικὸν τὸ δ’ ἀναίσθητον ἵνα δὴ τὰσ ἀντιζύγουσ ταύτασ καὶ ἀντιθέτουσ ἕξεισ καὶ στερήσεισ περὶ ταὐτὸν ἡ φύσισ ἔχῃ γένοσ οἱο͂ν ἰσορροπούσασ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 2:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ βραχεῖα διὰ τὸ ἀτελὴσ εἶναι ποιεῖ κολοβόν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 8 6:7)

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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