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κοίλην (koilen)

κοίλην is an Ancient Greek form of κοῖλος, meaning “hollow”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 112 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.1328: πορφύρεον, κοίλην δὲ διὲξ ἁλὸς ἔκλυσε νῆα.

Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 129: δεινὸς ἀνήρ· κοΐλην δὲ περὶ στήθεσσι φαρέτρην

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 2.3·6: … χοι καὶ ὅλως ἀλλοπρόσαλλοι διὰ τὸν τῶν προκειμένων ἀστέρων συσχηματισμόν. καὶ τούτων δὲ πάλιν οἱ μὲν περὶ τὴν Κοίλην Συρίαν καὶ Ἰδουμαίαν καὶ Ἰουδαίαν τῷ τε Κριῷ καὶ τῷ τοῦ Ἄρεως μᾶλλον συνοικειοῦνται· διόπερ ὡς ἐπὶ πᾶν θρασεῖ …

All forms of κοῖλος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.