κωλικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῶλον (kôlon, “member”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós); the word for “colon, part of the intestine” is actually κόλον (kólon) with ο rather than ω.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɔː.li.kós/ → /ko.liˈkos/ → /ko.liˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.li.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/

Adjective

κωλῐκός • (kōlikós) m (feminine κωλῐκή, neuter κωλῐκόν); first/second declension

1. suffering in the colon

Descendants

• → Middle Persian: *kōlang?
  • → Arabic: قَوْلَنْج (qawlanj)
    • → Persian: قولنج (qawlanj, qowlanj)
• → Latin: cōlicā
  • → French: colique
    • → English: colic

References

• “κωλικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-xiv