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κωλῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωλῆ

Structure: κωλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: kw=lon

Sense

  1. the thigh-bone with the flesh on it, the ham

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ οἶν δὲ ὅλον ἰπνοκαῆ εἴχομεν καὶ βοὸσ λειπογνώμονοσ κωλῆν. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:5)
  • ἢν δ’ ἅπερ οἱ νῦν ἐπιτηδεύῃσ, πρῶτα μὲν ἕξεισ χροιὰν ὠχράν, ὤμουσ μικρούσ, στῆθοσ λεπτόν, γλῶτταν μεγάλην, πυγὴν μικράν, κωλῆν μεγάλην, ψήφισμα μακρόν, καὶ σ’ ἀναπείσει τὸ μὲν αἰσχρὸν ἅπαν καλὸν ἡγεῖσθαι, τὸ καλὸν δ’ αἰσχρόν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, pnigos2)
  • καὶ κωλῆνα δὲ λέγουσι καὶ κωλῆν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 61)
  • κωλῆν σαρκώδη, λαγόνασ ὑγράσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6 1:8)
  • πέμψασ γὰρ κωλῆν ἐρίφου σκέλοσ ἤραο πῖον ταύρου λαρινοῦ, τίμιον ἀνδρὶ λαχεῖν, τοῦ κλέοσ Ἑλλάδα πᾶσαν ἐφίξεται οὐδ’ ἀπολήξει ἔστ’ ἂν ἀοιδάων ᾖ γένοσ Ἑλλαδικόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6 2:1)
  • Ἀριστόξενοσ δ’ ὁ Κυρηναῖοσ φιλόσοφοσ, ὁ ὄντωσ μετελθὼν τὴν πάτριον φιλοσοφίαν, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ κωλήν τισ καλεῖται Ἀριστόξενοσ ἰδίωσ σκευαζόμενοσ, ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀνυπερβλήτου τρυφῆσ καὶ τὰσ ἐν τῷ κήπῳ γινομένασ θριδακίνασ οἰνομέλιτι ἐπότιζεν ἑσπέρασ, καὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ἑώ λαμβάνων, χλωροὺσ ἔχειν ἔλεγε πλακοῦντασ ὑπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ἀναπεμπομένουσ αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 12 2:2)

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

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