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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

  • μένοι βεβαίωσ φοβούμεθα μὴ λάθωμεν εἰσ πολυφιλίαν κολοβοῦ καὶ τυφλοῦ, φοβουμένου μὴ φιλίων ἐμπεσόντεσ; (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 1 4:1)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • εἰ κύλιξ κολοβόσ, ἔτι εἶναι κύλικα· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 246:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ ἁρμονία ἐξ ἀνομοίων μὲν καὶ θέσιν ἔχει, κολοβὸσ δὲ οὐ γίγνεται. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 247:2)
  • οἱο͂ν ἂν τρυπηθῇ ἡ κύλιξ, οὐ κολοβόσ, ἀλλ’ ἂν τὸ οὖσ ἢ ἀκρωτήριόν τι, καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ οὐκ ἐὰν σάρκα ἢ τὸν σπλῆνα, ἀλλ’ ἐὰν ἀκρωτήριόν τι, καὶ τοῦτο οὐ πᾶν ἀλλ’ ὃ μὴ ἔχει γένεσιν ἀφαιρεθὲν ὅλον. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 247:5)

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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