κυλλός
λέγεις, ἃ δὲ λέγεις ἕνεκα τοῦ λαβεῖν λέγεις → you speak, but you say what you say for the sake of gain (Menander, fr. 776)
English (LSJ)
ή, όν,
A club-footed and bandy-legged, opp. βλαισός, Hp. Art.53, cf. 62; κ. πούς ib.53, Ar.Av.1379. 2 generally, deformed, contracted, κ. οὖς Hp.Art.40; crippled in the arm, κ. ἠκόντιζεν ἀμείνονα AP11.84 (Lucill.), cf. Ev.Matt.15.30, Gal.UP1.17, al.; ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (sc. χειρί) put into a crooked hand, i.e. with the fingers crooked like a beggar's, to catch an alms, Ar.Eq.1083, cf. Sch.adloc. 2 of things, crooked, κ. κυκλάς PLond.3.776.10 (vi A.D.). II κυλλά, τά, choliambi, Herod.8.79.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κυλλός: -ή, -όν, ὁ ἔχων βεβλαμμένους τοὺς πόδας, χωλός, κυρίως ἐπὶ ποδῶν κεκαμμένων πρὸς τὰ ἐκτὸς διὰ νόσον, ἀντίθ. τῷ βλαισός, Ἱππ. π. Ἄρθ. 820, πρβλ. 819Β, 827Ε· μηρὸς κυλλότερος 822Β· κ. ποὺς 821Β, Ἀριστοφ. Ὄρν. 1379· κ. οὖς Ἱππ. 805Η. ἴδε Foës. Oecon. ― ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (δηλ. χειρί), βάλε εἰς τὸ κοῖλον τῆς χειρός, ἢ κατ’ ἄλλους εἰς τὸ «κουλλὸν χέρι», Ἀριστοφ. Ἱππ. 1083, πρβλ. Σχολ. ἐν τόπῳ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ή, όν :
1 courbé;
2 tortu, déformé.
Étymologie: R. Κυρ, Κυλ, être courbé ; cf. κοῖλος.
English (Strong)
from the same as κυλιόω; rocking about, i.e. crippled (maimed, in feet or hands): maimed.
English (Thayer)
κυλλή, κυλλόν (akin to κύκλος, κυλίω, Latin circus, curvus, etc.; Curtius, § 81);
1. crooked; of the members of the body (Hippocrates, Aristophanes av. 1379): as distinguished from χωλός, it seems to be injured or disabled in the hands (but doubted by many), Tr marginal reading brackets κυλλούς and WH read it in marginal reading only).
2. maimed, mutilated (οὕς, Hippocrates, p. 805 (iii., p. 186, Kühn edition)): Mark 9:43.
