Ancient Greek

Noun

σωλήν • ‎(sōlḗn) m ‎(genitive σωλῆνος); third declension

1. channel, gutter, pipe
   • Archilochus, Collected Works 154
   • Herodotus, Histories 3.60
   • Plutarch, Moralia 2.526.B
   • Strabo, Geography 754
   1. syringe, squirt
      • Plutarch, Galba 19
2. a cylindrical box for keeping a broken limb straight
   • Hippocrates, Surgery 745, (Compare 763.D, 766.A)
3. a grooved tile, Latin imbrex
   • Hesychius Σ
4. ****
   • Hesychius Σ
5. the cavity of the spine
   • Pollux, Onomasticon 2.180

Inflection

Descendants

• English: solen
• Greek: σωλήνας ‎(solínas)
• Latin: sōlēn

References

• σωλήν in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «σωλήν» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette