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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the same Pre-Greek root of κῶλον (kôlon, “member, limb”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̌ː.lɛːps/ → /ˈko.lips/ → /ˈko.lips/
Noun
κώληψ • (kṓlēps) f (genitive κώληπος); third declension
- (anatomy) hollow of the knee, poplit, ham
- Synonym: ἰγνύα (ignúa)
Declension
Further reading
- “κώληψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κώληψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κώληψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κώληψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κώληψ 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