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κοιλία
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See also: κοιλιά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κοιλῐ́η (koilĭ́ē) — Ionic
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /koi̯.lí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kyˈli.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cyˈli.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cyˈli.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈli.a/
Noun
κοιλῐ́ᾱ • (koilĭ́ā) f (genitive κοιλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- the large hollow or cavity of the body, belly, abdomen, stomach
- New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 16:18
- New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 3:19
- the intestines, bowels
- excrement
- any cavity in the body, ventricle, chamber
- the socket of a bone
- the middle fleshy part of the muscles
- any hollow or cavity
Inflection
Derived terms
- κοιλιακός (koiliakós)
Descendants
Further reading
- “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κοιλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- G2836 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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Greek
Etymology
Borrowing from Ancient Greek κοιλία (koilía). Compare the inherited doublet κοιλιά (koiliá).
Pronunciation
Noun
κοιλία • (koilía) f (plural κοιλίες)
Declension
Synonyms
- στομάχι n (stomáchi)
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