Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κοιλίη ‎(koilíē) Ionic

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kylía/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kylía/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kilía/

Noun

κοιλία • ‎(koilía) f ‎(genitive κοιλίας); first declension

1. the large hollow or cavity of the body, belly, abdomen, stomach
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 46
   • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 15.896
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ παθῶν 6
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.87
   • 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 485
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ ἑλκῶν 3
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 73.A
   • 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 85.E
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Sleep 456.A.3
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 650.A.13
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 489.A.2
   • 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 674.B.22
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 507.B.5
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 16.18
   • New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 3.19
   1. the intestines, bowels
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.40
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.92
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 356
      • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 160
      • 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1169
   2. excrement
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ ἀέρων ὑδάτων τόπων 10
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.10
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 1.38
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων (νόθα) 56
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 4.23
2. any cavity in the body, ventricle, chamber
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 41
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 496.A.4
   1. the socket of a bone
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 61
   2. the middle fleshy part of the muscles
      • 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 4.375
      • 320 CE – 400 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 8.6.30
3. any hollow or cavity
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 349.B.4
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 350.B.23
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 369.B.2

Inflection

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • belly idem, page 72.
  • stomach idem, page 819.

Greek

Noun

κοιλία • ‎(koilía) f ‎(plural κοιλίες)

1. (anatomy) belly, tummy, stomach

Declension

Synonyms

• στομάχι n ‎(stomáchi)