χόλιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of χολάς (kholás).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kʰó.liks/ → /ˈxo.liks/ → /ˈxo.liks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kʰó.liks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰo.liks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.liks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.liks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈxo.liks/

Noun

χόλῐξ • (khólix) f or m (genitive χόλῐκος); third declension

1. guts or bowels of oxen

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ χόλῐξ; τοῦ, τῆς χόλῐκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ χόλῐξ ho, hē khólix	τὼ χόλῐκε tṑ khólike	οἱ, αἱ χόλῐκες hoi, hai khólikes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς χόλῐκος toû, tês khólikos	τοῖν χολῐ́κοιν toîn kholíkoin	τῶν χολῐ́κων tôn kholíkōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ χόλῐκῐ tôi, têi khóliki	τοῖν χολῐ́κοιν toîn kholíkoin	τοῖς, ταῖς χόλῐξῐ / χόλῐξῐν toîs, taîs khólixi(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν χόλῐκᾰ tòn, tḕn khólika	τὼ χόλῐκε tṑ khólike	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς χόλῐκᾰς toùs, tā̀s khólikas
Vocative	χόλῐξ khólix	χόλῐκε khólike	χόλῐκες khólikes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• χολῐ́κῐον (kholíkion)

Further reading

• “χόλιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χόλιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χολάδες”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1641