κολοβός

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.

κολοβός • (kolobós) m or f (neuter κολοβόν); second declension

1. docked, curtailed
   1. maimed, mutilated
   2. stunted (of trees)
   3. short, undersized
   4. broken, chipped (of a cup)
   5. truncated (of a cone)

• κολόβῐον n (kolóbion, “short-sleeved tunic”)
• κολόβᾰξ n (kolóbax, “short-sleeved tunic”)
• κολοβῐ́ζω (kolobízō, “mutilate”)
• κολοβομάχη f (kolobomákhē, “interrupted battle”)
• κολοβότης f (kolobótēs, “stuntedness”)
• κολοβόω (kolobóō, “dock, curtail, mutilate, shorten”)
• κολοβοκέρατος (kolobokératos, “with stunted horns”)
• κολοβόκερκος (kolobókerkos, “with docked tail”)
• κολοβώδης (kolobṓdēs, “stunted, stumpy”)
• κολόβωμᾰ n (kolóbōma, “the part taken away in mutilation”)
• κολόβωσῐς f (kolóbōsis, “mutilation”)

• κόλος (kólos, “docked”)
• κλαμβός (klambós, “mutilated, docked, cropped”)

• Translingual: Colobus, Otocolobus

• “κολοβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολοβός 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

From Ancient Greek κολοβός.

• IPA^(key): /ko.loˈvos/
• Hyphenation: κο‧λο‧βός

κολοβός • (kolovós) m (feminine κολοβή, neuter κολοβό)

1. docked, curtailed

   Ο μύθος του Αισώπου για την κολοβή αλεπού.

   O mýthos tou Aisópou gia tin koloví alepoú.

   Aesop's fable of the fox without a tail.

2. (figuratively) of which a part is missing (usually the last)

   κολοβός στίχος

   kolovós stíchos

   shortened/incomplete verse

• φίδι κολοβό n (fídi kolovó, “(literally: docked snake) a cunning, insidious person”)

• ακολόβωτος (akolóvotos, “not docked”)
• κολόβωμα n (kolóvoma, “the cutting of last section”)
• κολοβώνω (kolovóno, “I dock, curtail”)