# κοιλία
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* κοιλῐ́η (koilíē) — Ionic

### Etymology

From κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) +‎ -ῐ́ᾱ (-íā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /koi̯.lí.aː/ → /cyˈli.a/ → /ciˈli.a/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /koi̯.lí.aː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /kyˈli.a/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /cyˈli.a/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /cyˈli.a/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ciˈli.a/

### Noun

κοιλῐ́ᾱ • (koilíā) f (genitive κοιλῐ́ᾱς); first declension
* the large hollow or cavity of the body, belly, abdomen, stomach
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 46
** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 15.896
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Affections 6
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.87
** 405 BCE, Aristophanes, The Frogs 485
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Ulcers 3
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 73A
** 360 BCE, Plato, Timaeus 85E
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, On Sleep 456A.3
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 650A.13
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 489A.2
** 350 BCE, Aristotle, Parts of Animals 674B.22
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 507B.5
** New Testament, Epistle to the Romans 16:18
** New Testament, Epistle to the Philippians 3:19
** the intestines, bowels
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.40
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.86
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.92
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 356
*** 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 160
*** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1169
** excrement
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Airs, Waters, and Places 10
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 1.10
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Prorrhetics 1.38
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Acut.Sp. 56
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, Epidemics 4.23
* any cavity in the body, ventricle, chamber
** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 41
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, History of Animals 496A.4
** the socket of a bone
*** 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 61
** the middle fleshy part of the muscles
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 4.375
*** 320 CE – 403 CE, Oribasius, Collected Works 8.6.30
* any hollow or cavity
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 349B.4
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 350B.23
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Meteorology 369B.2

#### Derived terms

* κοιλιακός (koiliakós)

#### Descendants

* Greek: κοιλιά (koiliá), κοιλία (koilía)

### Further reading

* “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “κοιλία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* κοιλία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* G2836 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. belly idem, page 72.stomach idem, page 819.

## Greek
### Etymology

Borrowing from Ancient Greek κοιλία (koilía). Compare the inherited doublet κοιλιά (koiliá).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ciˈli.a/

### Noun

κοιλία • (koilía) f (plural κοιλίες)
* (anatomy) stomach, belly, tummy
* (anatomy) ventricle (heart)
* (anatomy) ventricle (brain)

#### Synonyms

* στομάχι n (stomáchi)