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κέλε·

kele

tumor; rupture, hernia

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What it meant

1. κήλη · kēlē — Beekes

κήλη [f.] ‘tumor; rupture, hernia’ (Hp. AP), ‘hump’ (Eup., Arist.). «IE *keh,w-l- ‘tumor, stalk’> DIAL Att. κάλη (Arist, gramm.). *COMP As a first member in xnAo-topia ‘operation for hernia’; as a second member in Evtepo-, σαρκο-κήλῃ (medic.). *DER κηλήτης [m.] ‘hernia patient’ (Str. Gal., Phryn.), Att. καλήτης; (évtepo)- κηλικός (Dsc., Gal.); xdAaua: ὄγκος ‘distension’ (H.), see Chantraine 1933: 186f,; denominative … — [Beekes, s.v. κήλη, p. 733]

2. κήλη · kēlē — Chantraine

κήλη : att. κάλη f. (?, cf. plus loin) «bosse», dit pour un buffle, d'un homme bossu, etc. (Eup., Arist., ete.) employé de façon précise par les médecins pour désigner une hernie (Hp.). En composition : κηλο-τομία « opération de la hernie » (Paul. Ægin.); comme second terme du composé dans dvrepo-, κιρσο-, σαρκο-, στεατο-κήλη, etc. (médec.), cf. Strômberg, Woristudien 69 sqq., avec p. ex. ἐντεροκηλικός (Dsc., Gal.). … — [Chantraine, s.v. κήλη, p. 538]

3. κέλε· · kele· — LSJ

4. κήλη · kēlē — LSJ

tumour, rupture, hernia

tumour; esp. rupture, hernia, Hp. Aër. 7 (pl.), AP 6.166 (Lucill.), 11.342.

2 hump, hernia

hump on a buffaloʼs back, Arist. HA 606a16, in acc. pl. κάλας (v.l. χαίτας); in human beings, Eup. 276.1, Gal. 7.729, Artem. 3.45; καλήτης καὶ κάλη Ἀττικοί . . , κηλήτης καὶ κήλη Ἴωνες Phryn. PS p.81 B. (Cf. ONorse haull, OSlav. kyla, both = hernia.)

Where it came from

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