βόλος

From βάλλω (bállō, “I throw or cast”).

βόλος • (bólos) m (genitive βόλου); second declension

1. a throw with a casting-net, a cast of a net
   1. (transferred senses):
      1. a net
      2. the thing caught, a draught or catch
2. a casting of teeth
3. a cast of dice
4. synonym of θύρα (thúra)

• βέλος (bélos)

• → Latin: bolus

βόλος • (bólos) m (genitive βόλου); second declension

1. alternative form of βῶλος (bôlos)

• “βόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 1 βόλος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• βόλος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cast idem, page 116.
  • catch idem, page 118.
  • draught idem, page 250.
  • haul idem, page 388.
  • shoal idem, page 767.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvolos/
• Hyphenation: βό‧λος

βόλος • (vólos) m (plural βόλοι)

1. alternative form of βώλος (vólos)