Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόϊλος ‎(kóïlos) (Aeolic)
• κώϊλος ‎(kṓïlos) (Aeolic)

Adjective

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

1. hollow, mostly as an epithet of ships
   1. 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

Inflection

Descendants

• Translingual: Coelodiazesis

References

• 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.
• LSJ 8th edition