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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κωλῆ κωλᾶ κωλαί
Genitive κωλῆς κωλαῖν κωλῶν
Dative κωλῇ κωλαῖν κωλαῖς
Accusative κωλῆν κωλᾶ κωλᾶς
Vocative κωλῆ κωλᾶ κωλαί

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)
  • οἴμοι δὲ κωλῆσ ἣν ἐγὼ κατήσθιον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode24)
  • ὥστε μ’ ἀπάγχεσθ’, ὅταν ὀρχεῖσθαι Παναθηναίοισ δέον αὐτοὺσ τὴν ἀσπίδα τῆσ κωλῆσ προέχων ἀμελῇ τῆσ Τριτογενείασ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Agon, epirrheme 1:3)
  • 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)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ κωλέα συνῃρημένον ἐστὶν ὡσ συκέα συκῆ, λεοντέα λεοντῆ, κωλέα κωλῆ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66)
  • δίδοται μάλισθ’ ἱερώσυνα, κωλῆ, τὸ πλευρόν, ἡμίκραιρ’ ἀριστερά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 6 1:6)

Similar forms

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

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