κόλος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Usually compared with Lithuanian kálti (“to beat, to hammer”) and Proto-Slavic *kòlti (“to sting”), but according to Beekes, the word may be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.los/
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | κόλος kólos |
κόλον kólon |
κόλω kólō |
κόλω kólō |
κόλοι kóloi |
κόλᾰ kóla | ||||||||
| Genitive | κόλου kólou |
κόλου kólou |
κόλοιν kóloin |
κόλοιν kóloin |
κόλων kólōn |
κόλων kólōn | ||||||||
| Dative | κόλῳ kólōi |
κόλῳ kólōi |
κόλοιν kóloin |
κόλοιν kóloin |
κόλοις kólois |
κόλοις kólois | ||||||||
| Accusative | κόλον kólon |
κόλον kólon |
κόλω kólō |
κόλω kólō |
κόλους kólous |
κόλᾰ kóla | ||||||||
| Vocative | κόλε kóle |
κόλον kólon |
κόλω kólō |
κόλω kólō |
κόλοι kóloi |
κόλᾰ kóla | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| κόλως kólōs |
κολώτερος kolṓteros |
κολώτᾰτος kolṓtatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “κόλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόλος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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