The corpus record

χωλός

cholos

lame, halting, limping, defective

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Where it lives

Malachias 2 · 14.4/10k
Regnorum II 5 · 3.09/10k
Matthew 5 · 2.79/10k
Crito 1 · 2.4/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k
Enchiridion 1 · 2.02/10k
Hebrews 1 · 1.99/10k
On the Cavalry Commander 1 · 1.74/10k
Acts 3 · 1.67/10k
Luke 3 · 1.56/10k
On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
Mark 1 · 0.91/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χωλός · chōlos — LSJ

lame, halting, limping

lame in the feet, halting, limping, c. acc., χωλὸς δʼ ἕτερον πόδα Il. 2.217, cf. 9.503, Od. 8.308, Hdt. 5.92.βʹ, S. Ph. 486, 1032; χ. καὶ οὐκ ἀρτίπους Hdt. 4.161; χ. τὼ σκέλει Ar. Th. 24; also c. dat., σκέλει χωλός Plu. QConv. 2.739b; χωλὸς ἀμφοτέροις Luc. Tim. 20: later also of the hand, like κυλλός, χωλὸς τὴν χεῖρα Eup. 343; χεῖρα χωλὴν ἕξειν Hp. Prorrh. 2.1, cf. Pl. Lg. 794e: of animals, X. Eq. 1.5, etc.

II defective, one-sided

metaph., defective, φύσις Pl. Phd. 71e; one-sided, Id. R. 535d; βασιλεία Orac. ap. X. HG 3.3.3.

2 halting

of metre, esp. of the χωλίαμβος (q. v.), halting, μέτρον Heph. 5.4, Demetr. Eloc. 301; also of a trochaic metre, Aristid.Quint. 1.25.

3 lame

ἀείδειν χωλά, of a ‘lame tale’, Herod. 1.71.

In the wild

χωλὸς · chōlos Aristotle, Metaphysics book 5 (DIORISIS sentence 1495)
χωλοὶ · chōloi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5097)
χωλῷ · chōlōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6579)
χωλὸς · chōlos Epictetus, Discourses 1.16 (DIORISIS sentence 811)
χωλούς · chōlous Epictetus, Discourses 1.28 (DIORISIS sentence 1499)
χωλοὺς · chōlous Epictetus, Discourses 1.8 (DIORISIS sentence 437)

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. χωλός (scan pp. 1704-1705; entry #6618).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. χωλός (scan pp. 1300-1301; entry #8835).
Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. χωλός (scan p. 2097; entry #6154).

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