χωλόν (cholon)

χωλόν is an Ancient Greek form of χωλός, meaning “lame”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 15.41: δάκρυʼ, ὅσσα θέλεις, χωλὸν δʼ οὐ δεῖ τυ γενέσθαι.

Plutarch, De Facie Quae in orbe Lunae Apparet 5: … καὶ τρεφούσης ἐπιλάβηται, βέλτιον οἶμαι συνορᾶν ἐνίων φιλοσόφων τοὺς ἐν παιδιᾷ λέγοντας τὸν Ἥφαιστον εἰρῆσθαι χωλόν, ὅτι τὸ πῦρ ξύλων χωρὶς ὥσπερ οἱ χωλοὶ βακτηρίας οὐ πρόεισιν. εἰ οὖν ἡ σελήνη πῦρ, ἐστι, πόθεν αὐτῇ τοσοῦτος …

All forms of χωλός (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.