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 • (kolíās) m (genitive κολῐ́ου); first declension
- Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias)
Inflection
First declension of ὁ κολῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ κολῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κολῐ́ᾱς ho kolíās | τὼ κολῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolíā | οἱ κολῐ́αι hoi kolíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κολῐ́ου toû kolíou | τοῖν κολῐ́αιν toîn kolíain | τῶν κολῐῶν tôn koliôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κολῐ́ᾳ tôi kolíāi | κολῐ́αιν kolíain | τοῖς κολῐ́αις toîs kolíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κολῐ́ᾱν tòn kolíān | κολῐ́ᾱ kolíā | τοὺς κολῐ́ᾱς toùs kolíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κολῐ́ᾱ kolíā | κολῐ́ᾱ kolíā | κολῐ́αι kolíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: coliās
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