σκολιός

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“crooked”), the same root of Latin scelus (“curse”), German scheel (“squinting”), Dutch scheel and Albanian çalë (“lame”). Synchronically analyzed as an adjectival formation from σκέλος (skélos, “leg”).^[1]

σκολῐός • (skolĭós) m (feminine σκολῐᾱ́, neuter σκολῐόν); first/second declension

1. curved, bent
2. winding (of rivers and paths)
3. twisted, tangled
4. crooked, unjust, unrighteous
5. riddling, obscure

• “σκολιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “σκολιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “σκολιός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• σκολιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• σκολιός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “σκολιός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós).

σκολιός • (skoliós) m (feminine σκολιά, neuter σκολιό)

1. (formal) bent; crooked

• σκολιός, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language
• Stavropoulos, D N (2008) G N Stavropoulos, editor, Oxford Greek-English Learner's Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press