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κωλόβαθρον

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τὰν ἐπὶ τᾶς → Either with this or on this | Come back victorious or dead

Plutarch, Moralia, 241
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Full diacritics: κωλόβαθρον Medium diacritics: κωλόβαθρον Low diacritics: κωλόβαθρον Capitals: ΚΩΛΟΒΑΘΡΟΝ
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