κωλῦον (kolyon)

κωλῦον is an Ancient Greek form of κωλύω, meaning “hinder, prevent, forbid”. It is the present active participle nominative singular neuter.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride 60: … ερ αὖ πάλιν τοῖς ἀντιφωνοῦσιν ὀνόμασι λοιδορεῖσθαι τὸ κακόν, τὸ τὴν φύσιν ἐμποδίζον καὶ συνδέον καὶ ἴσχον καὶ κωλῦον ἵεσθαι καὶ ἰέναι κακίαν ἀπορίαν δειλίαν ἀνίαν προσαγορευόντων.

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 11.4: … ἄνθρωπός τε καὶ θεός. Οὐ γὰρ καὶ πάντες οὕτως σοι δοκοῦσι συγκεῖσθαι ἐκ δυεῖν, ψυχῆς καὶ σώματος; ὥστε τί τὸ κωλῦόν ἐστι τὴν μὲν ψυχὴν ἐν οὐρανῷ εἶναι, ἥπερ ἦν ἐκ Διός, τὸ δὲ θνητὸν ἐμὲ παρὰ τοῖς νεκροῖς;

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 10.11.4: … τῆς διαγνώσεως τῶν μηνυομένων οὐχ ἡμᾶς εἶναι κυρίους ἀξιώσουσιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ τοὺς ὑπάτους; τί οὖν τὸ κωλύον ἔσται τὸ αὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ τοὺς προεστηκότας τοῦ δήμου λέγειν, ἐάν τινες ἐκ τῶν δημοτικῶν ἐπὶ τοῖς ὑπάτοις καὶ τ …

All forms of κωλύω (conjugation 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.