κῶλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ː.lon/ → /ˈko.lon/ → /ˈko.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔ̂ː.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lon/

Noun

κῶλον • (kôlon) n (genitive κώλου); second declension

1. part of something, member
2. part of the body: limb, leg, arm
3. part of a building: side, front
4. part of a sentence: clause
5. (in plural) carcass, carcasses

   2nd century BC, Septuagint, I Samuel (called Βασιλειων Α in Septuagint) 17:46 (David speaking to Goliath)

   και αποκλείσει σε κύριος σήμερον εις την χείρα μου και αποκτενώ σε και αφελώ την κεφαλήν σου από σου και δώσω τα κῶλά σου και τα κῶλα παρεμβολής των αλλοφύλων εν ταύτη τη ημέρα τοις πετεινοίς του ουρανού και τοις θηρίοις της γης και γνώσεται πάσα η γη ότι εστί θεός εν Ισραήλ ("And the Lord shall deliver thee today into my hand and I shall kill thee and take thy head off thee and give thy carcass and the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth and all the earth shall know that there is a god is in Israel." The Hebrew has the singular פגר מחנה פלשתים instead of "thy carcass and the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines".)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῶλον; τοῦ κώλου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῶλον tò kôlon	τὼ κώλω tṑ kṓlō	τᾰ̀ κῶλᾰ tà kôla
Genitive	τοῦ κώλου toû kṓlou	τοῖν κώλοιν toîn kṓloin	τῶν κώλων tôn kṓlōn
Dative	τῷ κώλῳ tôi kṓlōi	τοῖν κώλοιν toîn kṓloin	τοῖς κώλοις toîs kṓlois
Accusative	τὸ κῶλον tò kôlon	τὼ κώλω tṑ kṓlō	τᾰ̀ κῶλᾰ tà kôla
Vocative	κῶλον kôlon	κώλω kṓlō	κῶλᾰ kôla
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κωλικός (kōlikós)

Descendants

• Latin: cōlon
• Greek: κώλος (kólos)

Further reading

• “κῶλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κῶλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κῶλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2966 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κῶλον 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • leg idem, page 484.
  • limb idem, page 492.
  • member idem, page 524.