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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

  • Θεόπομποσ δ’ ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν ταῖσ πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον συμβουλαῖσ περὶ Θεοκρίτου τοῦ πολίτου τὸν λόγον ποιούμενόσ φησιν ἐξ ἀργυρωμάτων δὲ καὶ χρυσῶν πίνει καὶ τοῖσ σκεύεσιν χρῆται τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῆσ τραπέζησ ἑτέροισ τοιούτοισ, ὁ πρότερον οὐχ ὅπωσ ἐξ ἀργυρωμάτων ἔχων πίνειν ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ χαλκῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐκ κεραμέων καὶ τούτων ἐνίοτε κολοβῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1458)
  • "Ἐξ ἀργυρωμάτων δὲ καὶ χρυσῶν πίνει καὶ τοῖσ σκεύεσιν χρῆται τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῆσ τραπέζησ ἑτέροισ τοιούτοισ, ὁ πρότερον οὐχ ὅπωσ ἐξ ἀργυρωμάτων οὐκ ἔχων πίνειν ἀλλ’ οὐδε χαλκῶν, ἀλλ’ ἐκ κεραμέων καὶ τούτων ἐνίοτε κολοβῶν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section19)
  • τὰ δ’ αἰδοῖα πάντεσ οἱ Τρωγλοδύται παραπλησίωσ τοῖσ Αἰγυπτίοισ περιτέμνονται πλὴν τῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ συμπτώματοσ ὀνομαζομένων κολοβῶν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 32 4:2)
  • τῷ δ’ Ἀντιφίλου λιμένι ἑξῆσ ἔστι λιμὴν καλούμενοσ κολοβῶν ἄλσοσ καὶ Βερενίκη πόλισ ἡ κατὰ Σαβὰσ καὶ Σαβαί, πόλισ εὐμεγέθησ, εἶτα τὸ τοῦ Εὐμένουσ ἄλσοσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 20:3)

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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