κόλον
Ancient Greek edit
Pronunciation edit
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kó.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈko.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈko.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈko.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.lon/
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain. Grammarians of Hellenistic times proposed relation to βουκόλος (boukólos, “tending kine”), δύσκολος (dúskolos, “difficult”), κόλαξ (kólax, “flatterer”). Other theories include κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, club-footed”) and κόλος (kólos, “docked, hornless”). No relation to κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).[1]
Noun edit
κόλον • (kólon) n (genitive κόλου); second declension
Declension edit
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κόλον tò kólon |
τὼ κόλω tṑ kólō |
τᾰ̀ κόλᾰ tà kóla | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κόλου toû kólou |
τοῖν κόλοιν toîn kóloin |
τῶν κόλων tôn kólōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κόλῳ tôi kólōi |
τοῖν κόλοιν toîn kóloin |
τοῖς κόλοις toîs kólois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κόλον tò kólon |
τὼ κόλω tṑ kólō |
τᾰ̀ κόλᾰ tà kóla | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόλον kólon |
κόλω kólō |
κόλᾰ kóla | ||||||||||
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Descendants edit
- → Greek: κόλον (kólon) (learned)
- → Latin: colon (see there for further descendants)
- → Classical Syriac: ܩܘܠܘܢ (qōlōn)
Further reading edit
- κόλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόλον - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
- “κόλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
κόλον • (kólon)
- inflection of κόλος (kólos):
References edit
- ^ κόλον - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
Greek edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόλον of uncertain etymon. Grammarians of Hellenistic times proposed relation to βουκόλος (boukólos, “tending kine”), δύσκολος (dúskolos, “difficult”), κόλαξ (kólax, “flatterer”). Other theories include κυλλός (kullós, “crooked, club-footed”) and κόλος (kólos, “docked, hornless”). No relation to κῶλον (kôlon, “limb”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
κόλον • (kólon) n (indeclinable)
Related terms edit
- κολονοσκόπηση f (kolonoskópisi, “colonoscopy”)
See also edit
- λεπτό έντερο n (leptó éntero, “small intestine”)
- παχύ έντερο n (pachý éntero, “large intestine”)
References edit
- ^ κόλον - Babiniotis, Georgios (2010) Ετυμολογικό λεξικό της νέας ελληνικής γλώσσας Etymologikó lexikó tis néas ellinikís glóssas [Etymological Dictionary of Modern Greek language] (in Greek), Athens: Lexicology Centre
Further reading edit
- Έντερο on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el