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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: kōlóbathron Transliteration B: kōlobathron Transliteration C: kolovathron Beta Code: kwlo/baqron

English (LSJ)

τό, stilt, Artem.3.15 (v.l. καλόβαθρον).

German (Pape)

[Seite 1542] τό, = καλόβαθρον, Stelze, Artemid. 3, 15.

Greek Monolingual

κωλόβαθρον, τὸ (Α)
το ξυλοπόδαρο.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < κῶλον + βάθρον (< βαίνω), πρβλ. διάβαθρον, υπόβαθρον].

Wikipedia EN

Ancient Greek jar depicting stilt walkers, 6th century BC

Archaeological ruins and texts show that stiltwalking was practised in ancient Greece as far back as the 6th century BCE. The ancient Greek word for a stilt walker was κωλοβαθριστής (kōlobathristēs), from κωλόβαθρον (kōlobathron), "stilt", a compound of κῶλον (kōlon), "limb" and βάθρον (bathron), "base, pedestal".

Translations

stilt

Armenian: ոտնացուպ; Belarusian: хадуля, дыба; Bulgarian: кокили; Catalan: xanca; Chinese Mandarin: 高蹺, 高跷; Czech: chůdy; Danish: stylte; Dutch: stelt; Estonian: kark; Finnish: puujalka; French: échasse; Galician: zanco, chanca; Georgian: ოჩოფეხა; German: Stelze; Ancient Greek: κωλόβαθρον; Hungarian: gólyaláb; Icelandic: stulta; Irish: cos croise; Italian: trampolo; Japanese: 竹馬; Korean: 죽마(竹馬); Latin: grallae; Macedonian: наногалка, кокила; Maori: poukoki, poutoti; Norwegian Bokmål: stylte; Polish: szczudło; Portuguese: perna-de-pau; Romanian: piciorong, catalige; Russian: ходуля; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: ходуља, гигаља, шту̏ла; Roman: hodulja, gigalja, štȕla; Spanish: zanco; Swedish: stylta; Tagalog: kikik; Turkish: tahta bacak; Ukrainian: хі́для, хі́длі, диби, ходуля; Vietnamese: cà kheo