κολεός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κουλεός (kouleós)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *ḱéleti, from *ḱel- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.le.ós/ → /ko.leˈos/ → /ko.leˈos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.le.ós/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.lɛˈos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/

Noun

κολεός • (koleós) m (genitive κολεοῦ); second declension

1. a sword-sheath, a scabbard
   • Hecat. 22.J.
   • AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus
   • Gloss.
   • Achmet 114.12.14
2. a cinerary urn
   • AD 5th C., Hesychius Alexandreus
3. a varia lectio of κολιός (koliós, “green woodpecker”)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 593a.8
4. (in the form κουλεός) the sheath of the heart, the pericardium
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Cord. 3

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κολεός; τοῦ κολεοῦ

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κολεός	τὼ κολεώ	οἱ κολεοί
Genitive	τοῦ κολεοῦ	τοῖν κολεοῖν	τῶν κολεῶν
Dative	τῷ κολεῷ	τοῖν κολεοῖν	τοῖς κολεοῖς
Accusative	τὸν κολεόν	τὼ κολεώ	τοὺς κολεούς
Vocative	κολεέ	κολεώ	κολεοί
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (scabbard): κολεόν (koleón)
• (cinerary urn): λάρναξ (lárnax), ὑδρία (hudría)

Descendants

• Greek: κολεός (koleós)

References

• κολεός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολεός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós).

Noun

κολεός • (koleós) m (plural κολεοί)

1. (anatomy) vagina
2. (botany) sheath
3. sheath, scabbard

Declension

declension of κολεός

	singular	plural
nominative	κολεός •	κολεοί •
genitive	κολεού •	κολεών •
accusative	κολεό •	κολεούς •
vocative	κολεέ •	κολεοί •

Synonyms

• (vagina): κόλπος m (kólpos)