κόλπου (kolpou)

κόλπου is an Ancient Greek form of κόλπος, meaning “lap, bosom; gulf”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 238 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.29.3: … πειδὴ δ’ ἐγένοντο ἐν Ἀκτίῳ τῆς Ἀνακτορίας γῆς, οὗ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνός ἐστιν, ἐπὶ τῷ στόματι τοῦ Ἀμπρακικοῦ κόλπου, οἱ Κερκυραῖοι κήρυκά τε προύπεμψαν αὐτοῖς ἐν ἀκατίῳ ἀπεροῦντα μὴ πλεῖν ἐπὶ σφᾶς καὶ τὰς ναῦς ἅμα ἐπλήρουν, ζ …

Moschus, Europa 127: εἴρυε πορφυρέην κολποῦ πτύχα, ὄφρά κε μή μιν

Callimachus, Hymn to Delos 214: γείνεο, γείνεο κοῦρε καὶ ἤπιος ἔξιθι κόλπουʼ.

All forms of κόλπος (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.