κολεός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κουλεός (kouleós)

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.le.ós/ → /ko.leˈos/ → /ko.leˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.le.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/

Noun

κολεός • (koleós) m (genitive κολεοῦ); second declension

1. a sword-sheath, a scabbard
   • Hecat. 22.J.
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
   • Corpus Glossariorum Latinorum
   • Achmet 114.12.14
2. a cinerary urn
   • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον
3. a varia lectio of κελεός (keleós, “green woodpecker”)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 593a.8
4. (in the form κουλεός) the sheath of the heart, the pericardium
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Heart 3

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κολεός; τοῦ κολεοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κολεός ho koleós	τὼ κολεώ tṑ koleṓ	οἱ κολεοί hoi koleoí
Genitive	τοῦ κολεοῦ toû koleoû	τοῖν κολεοῖν toîn koleoîn	τῶν κολεῶν tôn koleôn
Dative	τῷ κολεῷ tôi koleôi	τοῖν κολεοῖν toîn koleoîn	τοῖς κολεοῖς toîs koleoîs
Accusative	τὸν κολεόν tòn koleón	τὼ κολεώ tṑ koleṓ	τοὺς κολεούς toùs koleoús
Vocative	κολεέ koleé	κολεώ koleṓ	κολεοί koleoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• (scabbard): κολεόν (koleón)
• (cinerary urn): λάρναξ (lárnax), ὑδρία (hudría)

Derived terms

• κολεόπτερος (koleópteros)

Descendants

• Greek: κολεός (koleós)
• → Latin: cōleus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κολεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολεός in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

Greek

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/

Noun

κολεός • (koleós) m (plural κολεοί)

1. (anatomy) vagina
2. (botany) sheath
3. sheath, scabbard

Declension

Declension of κολεός

	singular	plural
nominative	κολεός •	κολεοί •
genitive	κολεού •	κολεών •
accusative	κολεό •	κολεούς •
vocative	κολεέ •	κολεοί •

Synonyms

• (vagina): κόλπος m (kólpos)