Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κόλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλον κόλου

Structure: κολ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from ko/los

Sense

  1. the colon or lower intestine

Declension

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

  • κόλον γὰρ ἡ τροφή, ὅθεν καὶ ὁ βουκόλοσ καὶ ὁ δύσκολοσ, ὅσ ἐστι δυσάρεστοσ καὶ σικχόσ, κοιλία τε ἡ τὴν τροφὴν δεχομένη, ψωμοκόλαφον δ’ εἴρηκε Δίφιλοσ ἐν Θησεῖ οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 80 1:6)
  • τοῦτο Σάων τὸ δίπαχυ κόλον κέρασ Ὡμβρακιώτασ βουμολγὸσ ταύρου κλάσσεν ἀτιμαγέλου, οππότε μιν κνημούσ τε κατὰ λασίουσ τε χαράδρασ ἐξερέων ποταμοῦ φράσσατ’ ἐπ’ ἀιόνι ψυχόμενον χηλάσ τε καὶ ἰξύασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2551)
  • τὸ μὲν Τελαμώνιοσ Αἰάσ πῆλ’ αὔτωσ ἐν χειρὶ κόλον δόρυ, τῆλε δ’ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ αἰχμὴ χαλκείη χαμάδισ βόμβησε πεσοῦσα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 10:2)
  • δοκέει δέ μοι καὶ τὸ γένοσ τῶν βοῶν τὸ κόλον διὰ ταῦτα οὐ φύειν κέρεα αὐτόθι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 29 1:1)

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

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