κοῖλον (koilon)

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

It can also be a form of κόιλος, “hollow (garbled form of κοῖλος)”.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.12: … ς ὢν καὶ ἀναγραφόμενος ἐν τῇ στήλῃ, Ζήνωνος τοῦ φιλοσόφου, ἠξίωσε καὶ τὸ Κιτιεύς προστεθῆναι. ποιήσας δέ ποτε κοῖλον ἐπίθημα τῇ ληκύθῳ περιέφερε νόμισμα, λύσιν ἕτοιμον τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἵνʼ ἔχοι Κράτης ὁ διδάσκαλος.

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 6.18.4: … τοῦ κατάπλου ἦν· χειμών τε ἐπιγίγνεται ἐς τὴν ὑστεραίαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀναγωγῆς καὶ ὁ ἄνεμος τῷ ῥόῳ πνέων ὑπεναντίος κοῖλόν τε ἐποίει τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὰ σκάφη διέσειεν, ὥστε ἐπόνησαν αὐτῷ αἱ πλεῖσται τῶν νεῶν, τῶν δὲ τριακοντόρων ἔστ …

Babrius, Fables 134.12: κοιλὸν δὲ πέτρης εἰς βάραθρον ἠνέχθη

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.