κοῖλος

• κοίϊλος (koíïlos) — Aeolic, Ionic
• κόϊλος (kóïlos), κώϊλος (kṓïlos) — Aeolic

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱowilos, from *ḱewH- (“hollow”) (which may be identical to *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”)). Cognates include Latin cavus (“cave”), Middle Irish cúa (“hollow”), Old English hol (English hole, hollow), Albanian thellë (“deep”),^[1] and Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “zero, empty”).

κοῖλος • (koîlos) m (feminine κοίλη, neuter κοῖλον); first/second declension

1. hollow, mostly as an epithet of ships
   1. (κοίλη ναῦς) the hollow or hold of a ship
   2. roomy
   3. empty
2. (of places) lying in a hollow, or forming a hollow
   1. lying between cliffs
3. sea swell
4. plate
5. (figuratively, of the voice) hollow
6. (neuter substantive) a hollow, cavity
   1. (in the plural) flanks
7. concave

   Antonym: κυρτός (kurtós)

• Translingual: Coelodiazesis
• → English: coelo-

• “κοῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κοῖλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κοῖλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κοῖλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κοῖλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “κοῖλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cavernous idem, page 119.
  • concave idem, page 154.
  • excavated idem, page 287.
  • hollow idem, page 403.
  • tubular idem, page 900.
• “κοῖλος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011