κόλασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολάζω (kolázō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.la.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.sis/

Noun

κόλᾰσῐς • (kólasis) f (genitive κολάσεως); third declension

1. chastisement, correction, punishment

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κόλᾰσῐς; τῆς κολᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόλᾰσῐς hē kólasis	τὼ κολᾰ́σει tṑ kolásei	αἱ κολᾰ́σεις hai koláseis
Genitive	τῆς κολᾰ́σεως tês koláseōs	τοῖν κολᾰσέοιν toîn kolaséoin	τῶν κολᾰ́σεων tôn koláseōn
Dative	τῇ κολᾰ́σει têi kolásei	τοῖν κολᾰσέοιν toîn kolaséoin	ταῖς κολᾰ́σεσῐ / κολᾰ́σεσῐν taîs kolásesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κόλᾰσῐν tḕn kólasin	τὼ κολᾰ́σει tṑ kolásei	τᾱ̀ς κολᾰ́σεις tā̀s koláseis
Vocative	κόλᾰσῐ kólasi	κολᾰ́σει kolásei	κολᾰ́σεις koláseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κόλαση (kólasi)
• → Coptic: ⲕⲟⲗⲁⲥⲓⲥ (kolasis)

Further reading

• κόλασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κόλασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2851 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • castigation idem, page 117.
  • chastening idem, page 127.
  • chastisement idem, page 127.
  • correction idem, page 176.
  • discipline idem, page 229.
  • punishment idem, page 658.
  • retribution idem, page 708.
• “κόλασις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011