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χόλιξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χόλιξ χόλικος

Structure: χολικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the guts or bowels

Declension

Third 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

  • "σχελίδεσ δ’ ὁλόκνημοι πλησίον τακερώταται ἐπὶ πινακίσκοισ καὶ δίεφθ’ ἀκροκώλια ἥδιστον ἀπατμίζοντα καὶ χόλικεσ βοὸσ καὶ πλευρὰ δελφάκει’ ἐπεξανθισμένα χναυρότατα παρέκειτ’ ἐπ’ ἀμύλοισ καθήμενα, παρῆν δὲ χόνδροσ γἀλακι κατανενιμμένοσ ἐν καταχύτλοισ λεκάναισι καὶ πύου τόμοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:147)
  • πρὸσ τούτοισιν δὲ παρέσται σοι θύννου τέμαχοσ, κρέα δελφακίων χορδαὶ τ’ ἐρίφων ἧπάρ τε κάπρου κριοῦ τ’ ὄρχεισ χόλικέσ τε βοὸσ κρανία τ’ ἀρνῶν νῆστισ τ’ ἐρίφου γαστήρ τε λαγώ, φύσκη, χορδή, πνεύμων ἀλλᾶσ τε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 140 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. the guts or bowels

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

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