[Meaning] the ones having docked tails. This is said both of loaves and of medical drugs.
*kollou/ria: ta\ koloba\s e)/xonta ta\s ou)ra/s. tou=to de\ kai\ e)pi\ a)/rtwn kai\ e)pi\ tw=n i)atrikw=n farma/kwn le/getai.
Same entry in
Etymologicum Magnum 526.27-29.
On the ambiguity between "loaf" and "pessary" see already
epsilon 2428 and
kappa 1940. The similarity to "stump-tailed" (
kappa 1952) mentioned in the gloss is presumably coincidental; stump-tailed is derived from
ko/los, and is properly spelled with a single lambda.
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