κοιλίᾳ [6 verses ](noun sg fem dat) "Belly" is from the Greek, koilia, which means the "cavity within the body" (from the Greek, koilos, for "hollow"), "belly," "abdomen," "intestines,""excrement," "womb," any hollow in the body, and "a hollow in the earth." From the Greek, koilos, for "hollow."  - "Belly" is from the Greek word meaning any abdomen, referring generally to any opening in the body. In Greek, the home of the most basic emotions, food, sex, and other forms of immediate gratification.  The Greeks considered the belly the source of our animal impulses and desires: food, sex, and other forms of immediate gratification.