κοιλία
See also: κοιλιά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κοιλῐ́η (koilĭ́ē) — Ionic
Etymology
From κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā).[1]
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
- 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
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κοιλῐ́ᾱ hē koilĭ́ā |
τὼ κοιλῐ́ᾱ tṑ koilĭ́ā |
αἱ κοιλῐ́αι hai koilĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κοιλῐ́ᾱς tês koilĭ́ās |
τοῖν κοιλῐ́αιν toîn koilĭ́ain |
τῶν κοιλῐῶν tôn koilĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κοιλῐ́ᾳ tēî koilĭ́āi |
τοῖν κοιλῐ́αιν toîn koilĭ́ain |
ταῖς κοιλῐ́αις taîs koilĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κοιλῐ́ᾱν tḕn koilĭ́ān |
τὼ κοιλῐ́ᾱ tṑ koilĭ́ā |
τᾱ̀ς κοιλῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koilĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κοιλῐ́ᾱ koilĭ́ā |
κοιλῐ́ᾱ koilĭ́ā |
κοιλῐ́αι koilĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κοιλιακός (koiliakós)
Descendants
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κοῖλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 730: “DER > A > line 1 > κοιλία”
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[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- κοιλία, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Borrowing from Ancient Greek κοιλία (koilía). Compare the inherited doublet κοιλιά (koiliá).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ciˈli.a/
Noun
κοιλία • (koilía) f (plural κοιλίες)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κοιλία (koilía) | κοιλίες (koilíes) |
| genitive | κοιλίας (koilías) | κοιλιών (koilión) |
| accusative | κοιλία (koilía) | κοιλίες (koilíes) |
| vocative | κοιλία (koilía) | κοιλίες (koilíes) |
Synonyms
- στομάχι n (stomáchi)