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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of χολάς (kholás).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʰó.liks/ → /ˈxo.liks/ → /ˈxo.liks/
Noun
χόλῐξ • (khólix) f or m (genitive χόλῐκος); third declension
- guts or bowels of oxen
Inflection
ὁ, ἡ χόλῐξ ho, hē khólix
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τὼ χόλῐκε tṑ khólike
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οἱ, αἱ χόλῐκες hoi, hai khólikes
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τοῦ, τῆς χόλῐκος toû, tês khólikos
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τοῖν χολῐ́κοιν toîn kholíkoin
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τῶν χολῐ́κων tôn kholíkōn
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τῷ, τῇ χόλῐκῐ tôi, têi khóliki
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τοῖν χολῐ́κοιν toîn kholíkoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς χόλῐξῐ / χόλῐξῐν toîs, taîs khólixi(n)
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τὸν, τὴν χόλῐκᾰ tòn, tḕn khólika
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τὼ χόλῐκε tṑ khólike
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς χόλῐκᾰς toùs, tā̀s khólikas
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χόλῐξ khólix
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χόλῐκε khólike
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χόλῐκες khólikes
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “χόλιξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- χόλιξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “χολάδες”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1641