Ancient Greek

Noun

κόλπος • ‎(kólpos) m ‎(genitive κόλπου); second declension

1. bosom, lap
2. womb
3. a fold in fabric around the bosom
4. any hollow space, pocket
5. especially of water, the hollow between waves
6. gulf, bay, creek

Inflection

Descendants

(many Romance descendants through a Late or Vulgar Latin intermediate)

References

• κόλπος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόλπος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόλπος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «κόλπος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «κόλπος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• κόλπος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G2859”, 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.
  • bay idem, page 65.
  • bosom idem, page 90.
  • breast idem, page 96.
  • cove idem, page 179.
  • creek idem, page 183.
  • estuary idem, page 284.
  • fold idem, page 332.
  • gulf idem, page 379.
  • inlet idem, page 442.
  • lap idem, page 476.
  • tuck idem, page 900.
  • valley idem, page 943.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλπος ‎(kólpos).

Noun

κόλπος • ‎(kólpos) m ‎(plural κόλποι)

1. bosom
2. bay, gulf
3. (anatomy) ****
4. (anatomy) atrium (of the heart)

Declension

Synonyms

• (****): κολεός m ‎(koleós)