Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• χόλος ‎(khólos)

Noun

χολή • ‎(kholḗ) f ‎(genitive χολῆς); first declension

1. gall, bile
2. (in the plural) gall bladder
3. bitterness, wrath, anger
4. disgust, aversion

Inflection

References

• χολή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• χολή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «χολή» 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
• “G5521”, 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.
  • anger idem, page 29.
  • bile idem, page 78.
  • choler idem, page 131.
  • gall idem, page 352.
  • gall-bladder idem, page 353.
  • gorge idem, page 367.
  • indignation idem, page 433.
  • ire idem, page 459.
  • passion idem, page 597.
  • rage idem, page 668.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χολή ‎(kholḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel-.

Noun

χολή • ‎(cholí) f ‎(plural χολές)

1. gall, bile
2. (colloquial) gall bladder
3. (figuratively) bitterness, wrath, anger, bile

Declension

External links

• χολή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el