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scolia

/ˈskəʊlɪə/

scolia is the plural of scolion.

scolia is the plural of scolium.

Meaning of scolion

Noun

scolion (plural scolia)

  1. (Greek antiquities) Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre.
    • Terpander was the inventour of those songs called Scolia, which were sung at feasts.1603, Holland, Plutarch, page 1257

Questions about scolia

What is scolia the plural of?
Scolia is the plural of scolion.
How do you pronounce scolia?
Scolia is pronounced /ˈskəʊlɪə/.

Words near scolia in the dictionary

  1. scolecospores
  2. Scoles
  3. scolex
  4. scolexes
  5. scolexin
  6. scolia
  7. scolices
  8. scolicidal
  9. scolie
  10. scolies
  11. scoliid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scolia (page history and authors); scolion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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