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χολ-άς , άδος, ἡ, commonly in pl. χολάδες,
A.bowels, guts, Il.4.526, h.Merc.123, Antim.45; made into strings for lyre, etc., AP11.352.12 (Agath.): in Com., also χολλάδες , Pherecr.246, Men.23.
II. in sg., gut-cavity, common to the ὑποχόνδριον and λαγών, Arist.HA 493a21. (Cf. χόλ-ιξ, Slav. želad[ucaron]k[ucaron] 'stomach'; not cogn. with χολή as implied by Aret.SD2.9.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (3):
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.526
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 123
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 2.9
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