κωλικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κῶλον (kôlon, “member”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós); the word for “colon, part of the intestine” is actually κόλον (kólon) with ο rather than ω.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɔː.li.kós/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈkos/

Adjective

κωλῐκός • (kōlikós) m (feminine κωλῐκή, neuter κωλῐκόν); first/second declension

suffering in the colon

Descendants

→ Middle Persian: *kōlang?
- → Arabic: قَوْلَنْج (qawlanj)
  - → Persian: قولنج (qawlanj, qowlanj)
→ Latin: cōlicā
- → French: colique
  - → English: colic

References

“κωλικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/greece-xiv

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.