Κωλύμη

hindrance

Translated by David Whitehead19 Nov 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

9 words

[Meaning an] obstacle, prevention, impediment. The term is Thucydidean.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κωλύμη· κώλυμα, κώλυσις, ἐμπόδιον. ἔστι δὲ ἡ λέξις Θουκυδίδου.

Betacode

*kwlu/mh: kw/luma, kw/lusis, e)mpo/dion. e)/sti de\ h( le/cis *qoukudi/dou.

Same entry in other lexica (and Thucydidean scholia); see the references at Photius kappa1302 Theodoridis.
For the feminine headword see Thucydides 1.92, 4.27.3, and (plural) 4.63.1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On Thucydides' idioms 3, characterises it as poetic.
cf. generally kappa 2249.