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κόλπῳ (kolpo)

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

Found 138 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.371: κόλπῳ ἐν εὐδιόωντι Θεμισκύρειον ὑπʼ ἄκρην

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 14.33: παρθένος ἑξαέτης κόλπω ἐπιθυμήσασα.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1: … ς, ἀφʼ οὗ Οἴνωτροι καλέονται οἱ ἐν Ἰταλίῃ οἰκέοντες, καὶ Πευκέτιος, ἀφʼ οὗ Πευκέτιοι καλέονται οἱ ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπᾠ. τὰ

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.