- κολοβός
- κολοβός zie kolosGrammatical information: adj.Meaning: `curtailed, maimed, short' (Pl., X., Arist., hell.);Compounds: as 1. member e. g. in κολοβό-κερκος `with docked tail' (LXX).Derivatives: κολόβιον n. `jack without sleeves' (pap.), also κολόβαξ (Gloss.); κολοβώδης `stunted, stumpy' (Polem. Phgn. [v. l.]), κολοβότης `stuntedness' (Plu.). Denomin. verbs: 1. κολοβόω `stunt, shorten' with κολόβωσις `mutilation', κολόβωμα `maimed, amputated member' (Arist.); 2. κολοβίζω `id.' (Thera Ia-Ip).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Expressive enlargement in -βος of κόλος; s. also on κλαμβός. No words agreeing with κολοβός have been found (s. Bq; also Machek Listy filol. 72, 71 and Ling. Posn. 5, 61 on Slav. komolъ `without horns'). Connection with Lat. incolumis, calamitas with variation b : m (Niedermann, s. W.-Hofmann s. calamitās; also Specht Ursprung 262) is hypothetic. Prob. Pre-Greek.Page in Frisk: 1,900-901
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.