κολίας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation like ἀκανθίας (akanthías), ξιφίας (xiphías), and other fish and animal names; further unexplained.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.lí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koˈli.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koˈli.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koˈli.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈli.as/
Noun
κολῐ́ᾱς • (kolĭ́ās) m (genitive κολῐ́ου); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κολῐ́ᾱς ho kolĭ́ās |
τὼ κολῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolĭ́ā |
οἱ κολῐ́αι hoi kolĭ́ai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κολῐ́ου toû kolĭ́ou |
τοῖν κολῐ́αιν toîn kolĭ́ain |
τῶν κολῐῶν tôn kolĭôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κολῐ́ᾳ tōî kolĭ́āi |
τοῖν κολῐ́αιν toîn kolĭ́ain |
τοῖς κολῐ́αις toîs kolĭ́ais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κολῐ́ᾱν tòn kolĭ́ān |
τὼ κολῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolĭ́ā |
τοὺς κολῐ́ᾱς toùs kolĭ́ās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κολῐ́ᾱ kolĭ́ā |
κολῐ́ᾱ kolĭ́ā |
κολῐ́αι kolĭ́ai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κολίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κολίας 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