χολῆς (choles)

χολῆς is an Ancient Greek form of χολή, meaning “bile, gall; bitterness”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 78 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49.3: … τὰ στήθη ὁ πόνος μετὰ βηχὸς ἰσχυροῦ· καὶ ὁπότε ἐς τὴν καρδίαν στηρίξειεν, ἀνέστρεφέ τε αὐτὴν καὶ ἀποκαθάρσεις χολῆς πᾶσαι ὅσαι ὑπὸ ἰατρῶν ὠνομασμέναι εἰσὶν ἐπῇσαν, καὶ αὗται μετὰ ταλαιπωρίας μεγάλης.

Hippocrates, De ulceribus 14: … ἐργασίη κατὰ τὰ αὐτά. — Ὄξος ὡς ὀξύτατον λευκὸν, μέλι, στυπτηρίην αἰγυπτίην, νίτρον ὡς ἄριστον ἡούχως φρύξας, χολῇς ὀλίγον συνέψει· τοῦτο τὰ ὑπερσαρκέοντα καθαίρει καὶ κοιλαίνει, καὶ οὐ δάκνει. — Ἄλλο· ποίη ἡ μικρόφυλλος, ᾗ ὄ …

All forms of χολή (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.