πῶλος

From Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-. Cognates include Latin paulus, Old Armenian ուլ (ul), and Old English fola (English foal).

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πῶλος • (pôlos) m or f (genitive πώλου); second declension

1. foal, young horse, whether colt or filly
   • Homer, Iliad 20.222
   • Homer, Odyssey 23.246
   1. a young animal, especially domestic
      • Aristotle, History of Animals 9.1,32
   2. (poetic) a young girl, maiden
      • Anacreontea 75
2. a Corinthian coin, from the figure of Pegasus on it
   • Euripides, Fragments 676

From the diminutive πωλίον (pōlíon)

• Greek: πουλί n (poulí, “bird”)

From the diminutive πωλάριον (pōlárion)

• Greek: πουλάρι n (poulári, “foal”)

• “πῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πῶλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πῶλος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πῶλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πῶλος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “πῶλος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4454 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • charger idem, page 125.
  • colt idem, page 144.
  • filly idem, page 320.
  • foal idem, page 331.
  • horse idem, page 406.
  • young idem, page 997.