"κήλων" meaning in Ancient Greek

See κήλων in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/, /ˈci.lon/, /ˈci.lon/, /kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈke̝.lon/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈci.lon/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈci.lon/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈci.lon/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: Unknown. A secondary formation in -ων (-ōn). Vendryes proposed to start from κῆλον (kêlon, “arrow, projectile”) in the unattested sense of "penis", but this cannot be further substantiated. Etymology templates: {{unk|grc}} Unknown Head templates: {{grc-noun|κήλωνος|m|third}} κήλων • (kḗlōn) m (genitive κήλωνος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|κήλων|κήλωνος}} Forms: kḗlōn [romanization], κήλωνος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ κήλων [nominative, singular], τὼ κήλωνε [dual, nominative], οἱ κήλωνες [nominative, plural], τοῦ κήλωνος [genitive, singular], τοῖν κηλώνοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν κηλώνων [genitive, plural], τῷ κήλωνῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν κηλώνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς κήλωσῐ [dative, plural], κήλωσῐν [dative, plural], toîs kḗlōsĭ [dative, plural], toîs kḗlōsĭn [dative, plural], τὸν κήλωνᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ κήλωνε [accusative, dual], τοὺς κήλωνᾰς [accusative, plural], κήλων [singular, vocative], κήλωνε [dual, vocative], κήλωνες [plural, vocative]
  1. swape, swing-beam for drawing water Categories (topical): Toilet (room) Categories (lifeform): Equids
    Sense id: en-κήλων-grc-noun-qoO~BeNp Disambiguation of Toilet (room): 94 6 Disambiguation of Equids: 84 16 Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 77 23 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 9
  2. stallion, male ass
    Sense id: en-κήλων-grc-noun-eIiUw262 Categories (other): Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: κᾱ́λων (kā́lōn) [Doric] Derived forms: κηλώνειον (kēlṓneion), κηλωνεύω (kēlōneúō), κηλωνοστάσιον (kēlōnostásion)
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kēlṓneion",
      "word": "κηλώνειον"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kēlōneúō",
      "word": "κηλωνεύω"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kēlōnostásion",
      "word": "κηλωνοστάσιον"
    }
  ],
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          "args": {
            "1": "syc",
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            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "qīlōnā"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Classical Syriac: ܩܝܠܘܢܐ (qīlōnā)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Classical Syriac: ܩܝܠܘܢܐ (qīlōnā)"
    }
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      "expansion": "Unknown",
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      "form": "kḗlōn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "κήλωνος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
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      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grc-decl",
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      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "ὁ κήλων",
      "roman": "ho kḗlōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "τὼ κήλωνε",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "τῶν κηλώνων",
      "roman": "tôn kēlṓnōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "τῷ κήλωνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi kḗlōnĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
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      "form": "τοῖν κηλώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn kēlṓnoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς κήλωσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλωσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs kḗlōsĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs kḗlōsĭn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν κήλωνᾰ",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
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        "dual"
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      "source": "declension",
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        "plural"
      ]
    },
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        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
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        "vocative"
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      "form": "κήλωνες",
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      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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          "_dis": "53 47",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "91 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "84 16",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Equids",
          "orig": "grc:Equids",
          "parents": [
            "Odd-toed ungulates",
            "Mammals",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Chordates",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "94 6",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "grc",
          "name": "Toilet (room)",
          "orig": "grc:Toilet (room)",
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            "Hygiene",
            "Rooms",
            "Health",
            "Buildings and structures",
            "Body",
            "Architecture",
            "All topics",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Art",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences",
            "Culture",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "swape, swing-beam for drawing water"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "swape",
          "swape"
        ],
        [
          "swing",
          "swing"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "stallion, male ass"
      ],
      "id": "en-κήλων-grc-noun-eIiUw262",
      "links": [
        [
          "stallion",
          "stallion"
        ],
        [
          "ass",
          "ass"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈke̝.lon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kā́lōn",
      "tags": [
        "Doric"
      ],
      "word": "κᾱ́λων"
    }
  ],
  "word": "κήλων"
}
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    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek paroxytone terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "grc:Equids",
    "grc:Toilet (room)"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kēlṓneion",
      "word": "κηλώνειον"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kēlōneúō",
      "word": "κηλωνεύω"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kēlōnostásion",
      "word": "κηλωνοστάσιον"
    }
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            "2": "ܩܝܠܘܢܐ",
            "bor": "1",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
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    }
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      "expansion": "Unknown",
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  "etymology_text": "Unknown. A secondary formation in -ων (-ōn). Vendryes proposed to start from κῆλον (kêlon, “arrow, projectile”) in the unattested sense of \"penis\", but this cannot be further substantiated.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kḗlōn",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλωνος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "grc-decl",
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      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ κήλων",
      "roman": "ho kḗlōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ κήλωνε",
      "roman": "tṑ kḗlōne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ κήλωνες",
      "roman": "hoi kḗlōnes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ κήλωνος",
      "roman": "toû kḗlōnos",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν κηλώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn kēlṓnoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν κηλώνων",
      "roman": "tôn kēlṓnōn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ κήλωνῐ",
      "roman": "tôi kḗlōnĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν κηλώνοιν",
      "roman": "toîn kēlṓnoin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς κήλωσῐ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλωσῐν",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs kḗlōsĭ",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs kḗlōsĭn",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν κήλωνᾰ",
      "roman": "tòn kḗlōnă",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ κήλωνε",
      "roman": "tṑ kḗlōne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς κήλωνᾰς",
      "roman": "toùs kḗlōnăs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλων",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλωνε",
      "roman": "kḗlōne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "κήλωνες",
      "roman": "kḗlōnes",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "swape, swing-beam for drawing water"
      ],
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        [
          "swape",
          "swape"
        ],
        [
          "swing",
          "swing"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ],
        [
          "water",
          "water"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "stallion, male ass"
      ],
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        [
          "stallion",
          "stallion"
        ],
        [
          "ass",
          "ass"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kɛ̌ː.lɔːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈke̝.lon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈci.lon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "kā́lōn",
      "tags": [
        "Doric"
      ],
      "word": "κᾱ́λων"
    }
  ],
  "word": "κήλων"
}

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