κόλυμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “I dive”), from Pre-Greek. Compare Latin columba (“dove”), which may be a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.lym.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.lim.bos/
Noun
κόλυμβος • (kólumbos) m (genitive κολύμβου); second declension
- Alternative form of κολυμβῐ́ς (kolumbís, “a diver, grebe”)
- Alternative form of κολύμβησῐς (kolúmbēsis, “pearl fishing”)
- Alternative form of κολυμβήθρᾱ (kolumbḗthrā, “place for swimming”)
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόλυμβος ho kólumbos |
τὼ κολύμβω tṑ kolúmbō |
οἱ κόλυμβοι hoi kólumboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κολύμβου toû kolúmbou |
τοῖν κολύμβοιν toîn kolúmboin |
τῶν κολύμβων tôn kolúmbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κολύμβῳ tôi kolúmbōi |
τοῖν κολύμβοιν toîn kolúmboin |
τοῖς κολύμβοις toîs kolúmbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόλυμβον tòn kólumbon |
τὼ κολύμβω tṑ kolúmbō |
τοὺς κολύμβους toùs kolúmbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόλυμβε kólumbe |
κολύμβω kolúmbō |
κόλυμβοι kólumboi | ||||||||||
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References
- κόλυμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόλυμβος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόλυμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόλυμβος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 379
- 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
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