κολεός

• κουλεός (kouleós)

From the Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover”).

κολεός • (koleós) m (genitive κολεοῦ); second declension

1. a sword-sheath, a scabbard
   • Hecataeus of Miletus, Fragments 22.J.:

     καὶ ἐπαφήσας τὸν κολεὸν τοῦ ξίφεος τὸν μύκην εὗρεν ἀποπεπτωκότα

     kaì epaphḗsas tòn koleòn toû xípheos tòn múkēn heûren apopeptōkóta

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Κ:

     κολεός· ἡ θήκη τοῦ ξίφους

     koleós; hē thḗkē toû xíphous

     koleós: the sheath of a sword]

   • Achmet 114.12.14
2. a cinerary urn
   • [5th c. C.E., Hesychius of Alexandria, Γλώσσαι, Κ:

     κολεός· […] καὶ λάρναξ

     koleós; […] kaì lárnax

     koleós: […] also: an urn]

3. a varia lectio of κελεός (keleós, “green woodpecker”)
   • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 593a.8
4. (in the form κουλεός) the sheath of the heart, the pericardium
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates of Kos, On the Heart 3

• (scabbard): κολεόν (koleón)
• (cinerary urn): λάρναξ (lárnax)

• κολεόπτερος (koleópteros)

• Greek: κολεός (koleós)
• → Latin: cōleus (see there for further descendants)

• “κολεός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολεός 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

From the Ancient Greek κολεός (koleós).

• IPA^(key): /ko.leˈos/

κολεός • (koleós) m (plural κολεοί)

1. (anatomy) vagina
2. (botany) sheath
3. sheath, scabbard

• (vagina): κόλπος m (kólpos)