χολή
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- χόλος (khólos)
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kʰolā́, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰolh₃-éh₂, from *ǵʰelh₃-. Cognate with Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬭𐬀 (zāra, “gall”), Latin helvus (“honey-yellow”), Sanskrit हरि (hári, “yellow, tawny”), Persian زر (zar, “gold”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kʰo.lɛ̌ː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kʰoˈle̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /xoˈli/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /xoˈli/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /xoˈli/
Noun
χολή • (kholḗ) f (genitive χολῆς); first declension
- gall, bile
- (in the plural) gall bladder
- bitterness, wrath, anger
- disgust, aversion
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ χολή hē kholḗ |
τὼ χολᾱ́ tṑ kholā́ |
αἱ χολαί hai kholaí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς χολῆς tês kholês |
τοῖν χολαῖν toîn kholaîn |
τῶν χολῶν tôn kholôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ χολῇ têi kholêi |
τοῖν χολαῖν toîn kholaîn |
ταῖς χολαῖς taîs kholaîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν χολήν tḕn kholḗn |
τὼ χολᾱ́ tṑ kholā́ |
τᾱ̀ς χολᾱ́ς tā̀s kholā́s | ||||||||||
Vocative | χολή kholḗ |
χολᾱ́ kholā́ |
χολαί kholaí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- πῐκρόχολος (pikrókholos)
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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 352.
- 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, →ISBN
- “χολή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰolh₃éh₂ (“gall, bile”), from the root *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow-green”). Cognate with Persian زهره (zahre, “gall”), English gall.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xoˈli/
Noun
χολή • (cholí) f (plural χολές)
- gall, bile
- (colloquial) gall bladder
- (figuratively) bitterness, wrath, anger, bile
Declension
Further reading
χολή on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- χολή - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.
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