Κολοφών

See also: κολοφών and Κολοφῶν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολοφών (kolophṓn, “summit, top”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/ → /ko.loˈɸon/ → /ko.loˈfon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈpʰon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈɸon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈfon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈfon/

Proper noun

Κολοφών • (Kolophṓn) m (genitive Κολοφῶνος); third declension

1. Colophon, Ionia, Turkey

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Κολοφών; τοῦ Κολοφῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Κολοφών ho Kolophṓn
Genitive	τοῦ Κολοφῶνος toû Kolophônos
Dative	τῷ Κολοφῶνῐ tôi Kolophôni
Accusative	τὸν Κολοφῶνᾰ tòn Kolophôna
Vocative	Κολοφών Kolophṓn
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κολοφώνῐον (Kolophṓnion)
• Κολοφώνῐος (Kolophṓnios)
• Κολοφωνῐ́ᾱ (Kolophōníā)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: Colophōn

Further reading

• “Κολοφώνιος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Κολοφών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,006