κοιλία

• κοιλῐ́η (koilíē) — Ionic

From κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

κοιλῐ́ᾱ • (koilíā) f (genitive κοιλῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. the large hollow or cavity of the body, belly, abdomen, stomach
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 46
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 15.896
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Affections 6
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.87
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 485
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ulcers 3
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 73A
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 85E
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Sleep 456A.3
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 650A.13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 489A.2
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 674B.22
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 507B.5
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 16:18
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 3:19
   1. the intestines, bowels
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.40
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.92
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 356
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 160
      • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1169
   2. excrement
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places 10
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.10
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 1.38
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Acut.Sp. 56
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 4.23
2. any cavity in the body, ventricle, chamber
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 41
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 496A.4
   1. the socket of a bone
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 61
   2. the middle fleshy part of the muscles
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 4.375
      • 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 8.6.30
3. any hollow or cavity
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 349B.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 350B.23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 369B.2

• Greek: κοιλιά (koiliá), κοιλία (koilía)

• “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κοιλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2836 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • belly idem, page 72.
  • stomach idem, page 819.

Borrowing from Ancient Greek κοιλία (koilía). Compare the inherited doublet κοιλιά (koiliá).

• IPA^(key): /ciˈli.a/

κοιλία • (koilía) f (plural κοιλίες)

1. (anatomy) stomach, belly, tummy
2. (anatomy) ventricle (heart)
3. (anatomy) ventricle (brain)

• στομάχι n (stomáchi)