ΚΟΙΛΑΙΝΟΥΣΑ, κοιλαινουσα
KOILAINOUSA, koilainousa
Sounds Like: koy-LAH-ee-noo-sah
Translations: hollowing out, making hollow, excavating
From the root: ΚΟΙΛΑΙΝΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'hollowing out' or 'making hollow'. It describes an action of creating a cavity or concavity. As a participle, it functions like an adjective or adverb, describing the subject performing the action or the manner in which an action is done.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Singular, Feminine, Nominative
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:140
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΟΙΛΑΙΝΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΟΙΛΑΙΝΕΤΑΙ — it is hollowed out, it is made hollow, it becomes hollow
- ΚΟΙΛΑΙΝΩ — to hollow, to make hollow, to become hollow, to be hollowed out
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