A.black, dark, freq. in Hom., “αἷμα” Il.1.303, Od.16.441; “νύξ” Il.5.310, etc.; “κῦμα” 9.6; “λαῖλαψ” 11.747; “χθών” 16.384; “δέρμα” 6.117; “ἦτορ” Hes.Sc.429: “ὄμβρος” Emp.111.6; κ. φῦλον a swarthy race, of the Ethiopians, A.Pr.808; Ἔπαφος ib.851; ξίφη, λόγχα, S.Aj.231, Tr.856 (both lyr.), cf. E.Ba.628 (troch., prob. from the colour of the metal rather than black with blood-stains); of things on which the sun does not shine, esp. of the nether world, dark, murky, A.Pr.433 (lyr.); “Ἐρινύες” Id.Ag.462 (lyr.); “Στύξ” Lyc.706; κ. θῖνα, of the bottom of the sea, S.Ant.590 (lyr.); λύει κ. βλέφαρα suffers her eyes to close in darkness, ib.1302: great, mighty, “δίψα” Lyc.1425. (Cf. Skt. kala[ndot ]kas 'spot': κηλίς may be cogn.)
κελαινός , ή, όν,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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