χωλότης
τὰ σῦκα σῦκα, τὴν σκάφην δὲ σκάφην ὀνομάζειν → call a spade a spade | speak the truth | speak straight from the shoulder | give it straight from the shoulder | give the straight goods | not to mince matters | not to mince words | not mince words | call things by their right names | call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel | call a shovel a shovel | call a spade a spade, not a big spoon
English (LSJ)
ητος, ἡ,
A lameness, σκέλους Plu.2.963c, Jul.Or.6.201b: pl., Plu.2.35c: metaph., lameness or deformity, of metres, Ath.14.632e. -όω, maim, Did. ad D.11.22.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1386] ητος, ἡ, der Zustand des Gelähmten, die Lähmung, das Hinken, Plut. Poplic. 16; vom Versmaaß Ath. 632 e.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
χωλότης: -ητος, ἡ, οὐσ. ἀφῃρημ. τοῦ χωλός, τὸ πάθος τοῦ χωλοῦ, «κούτσα», σκέλους Πλούτ. 2. 963C· ἐν τῷ πληθ., αὐτόθι 35C· μεταφορ., ἐπὶ μέτρων, Ἀθήν. 632Ε.
French (Bailly abrégé)
χωλότητος (ὁ) :
claudication.
Étymologie: χωλός.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
χωλότης: ητος ἡ Plut. = χωλεία.
