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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kh₂u-l-eh₂ (“tumour”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *kyla (“rupture”) and Proto-Germanic *haulaz (“hernia”). However the Attic form is still unexplained.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɛ̌ː.lɛː/ → /ˈci.li/ → /ˈci.li/
Noun
κήλη • (kḗlē) f (genitive κήλης); first declension
- (oncology) tumour, swelling
- (pathology) hernia, rupture
- hump on a buffalo's back
Inflection
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Descendants
References
- “κήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κήλη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κήλη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κήλη (kḗlē).
Noun
κήλη • (kíli) f (uncountable)
- (pathology) hernia, rupture
Declension
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