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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A technical term which has been connected to Latin callum (“callosity, thick skin”) or to σκόλοψ (skólops, “pole”). The word is clearly Pre-Greek because of its suffix; this is further confirmed by the variant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kól.lops/ → /ˈkol.lops/ → /ˈko.lops/
Noun
κόλλοψ • (kóllops) m (genitive κόλλοπος); third declension
- peg or screw by which the strings of the lyre were tightened
- bar by which a windlass was turned
- thick skin on the upper part of the neck of oxen or swine
- (figuratively) cinaedus, catamite
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Further reading
- “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόλλοψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόλλοψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόλλοψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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