οῦ (ὁ) :
   I tige d’une plante (στέλεχος, en parl. d’un arbre) TH. H.P. 1, 1, 9, etc. ; particul. :
      1 tige de silphium, AR. Eq. 894, d’où silphium, HPC. 389, 33 ; HERMIPP. (ATH. 27 e) ;
      2 tige de chou, d’où chou, ALEX. (Com. fr. 3, 437) ;
   II p. anal. :
      1 extrémité pointue du bois qui s’adapte au fer de la lance, IL. 13, 162, 608 ;
      2 garde d’une épée, IL. 16, 338 ;
      3 hampe ou tige d’un hameçon, OPP. H. 3, 148 ;
      4 tube de la plume d’un oiseau, PLAT. Phædr. 251 b ; ARSTT. H.A. 2, 12 ;
      5 col de la vessie, ARSTT. H.A. 1, 17, 17 ;
      6 c. πόσθη, ARSTT. H.A. 3, 1, 20 ; DS. Ecl. p. 521, 5.

Étym. indo-europ. *keh₂ulo-, tige ; cf. lat. caulis.

ὁ, stem of a plant (opp. στέλεχος, of trees, Thphr. HP 1.1.9), Epich. 158, Ar. Eq. 824 (anap.); κ. σιλφίου ib. 894; ἢ σίλφιον ἢ ὀπὸς ἢ κ. Hp. Acut. 37; called ἐκ Κυρήνης κ. Hermipp. 63.4; κ. ἐκ Καρχηδόνος Eub. 19; κ. Λίβυς Antiph. 217.13, cf. 325; κράμβης BGU 1118.12 (pl., i BC), cf. Dsc. 2.120, Archig. ap. Gal. 13.331. Hom. (only in Il.), spear-shaft, ἐν καυλῷ ἐάγη δολιχὸν δόρυ Il. 13.162; κατεκλάσθη δ’ ἐνὶ καυλῷ ἔγχος ib. 608; once of a sword-hilt, ἀμφὶ δὲ καυλὸν φάσγανον ἐρραίσθη 16.338. of various tubular structures in animals, πτεροῦ καυλός quill part of a feather, Pl. Phdr. 251b, cf. Arist. HA 504a31; neck of the bladder, ib. 497a20; duct of the penis, ib. 510a26; cervix uteri, ib. 510b11; ovipositor of locusts, ib. 555b21.
shank of a fish-hook, Oppian. H. 3.148.
vegetable of the cabbage kind, cole, kail, cauliflower, Alex. 127.5, Anaxandr. 41.58 (pl.), Eub. 7.3 (pl.).
membrum virile, Hp. Int. 14, D.S. 32.11, Gal. UP 14.12, Ruf. Onom. 101, etc. (Cf. Lat. caulus, caulis, Lith. kaáulas ΄bone΄.)

ὁ, Stengel, Stiel, Schaft ; eigtl. von Pflanzen, Hippocr., Theophr.; σιλφίου Ar. Eq. 895 ; Hermipp. bei Ath. I.27e ; der junge eßbare Trieb mehrerer Pflanzen, Kohl, Alexis Ath. IV.170a ; – πτεροῦ Plat. Phaedr. 251b, Federkiel ; Arist. H.A. 2.12.
Bei Hom. der Lanzenschaft, nach Hesych. τὸ ἄκρον δόρατος, τὸ ἀπωξυμμένον, εἰς ὃ ἐμβιβάζεται τὸ κοῖλον τοῦ δόρατος ; z.B. ἐν καυλῷ ἐάγη δολιχὸν δόρυ Il. 13.162, wie Xen. Cyn. 10.3 ; aber Il. 16.338, ἀμφὶ δὲ καυλὸν φάσγανον ἐρραίσθη, ist es das Degengefäß, Degenheft. Aehnl. von der Angel, ἐχαλκεύσανθ' ἁλιῆες καυλὸν ἐπ' ἀγκίστρῳ δολιχώτερον Opp. Hal. 3.148.
Bei Arist. H.A. 3.1 u. öfter, wie Nic. Th. 722, die männliche Rute.

1. the shaft of a spear, (Iliad by Homer): the hilt of a sword, (Iliad by Homer)
2. the stalk of a plat, (Aristophanes Comicus), etc. (ML)