κολλύριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κολλῡ́ρα (kollū́ra, “roll”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kol.ly̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kolˈly.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kolˈly.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kolˈly.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈli.ri.on/
Noun
κολλῡ́ρῐον • (kollū́rion) n (genitive κολλῡρῐ́ου); second declension
- pessary, diaphragm
- (medicine) eyesalve, collyrium
- fine clay on which a seal can be impressed
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ κολλῡ́ρῐον; τοῦ κολλῡρῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κολλῡ́ρῐον tò kollū́rion | τὼ κολλῡρῐ́ω tṑ kollūríō | τᾰ̀ κολλῡ́ρῐᾰ tà kollū́ria | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κολλῡρῐ́ου toû kollūríou | τοῖν κολλῡρῐ́οιν toîn kollūríoin | τῶν κολλῡρῐ́ων tôn kollūríōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κολλῡρῐ́ῳ tôi kollūríōi | κολλῡρῐ́οιν kollūríoin | τοῖς κολλῡρῐ́οις toîs kollūríois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κολλῡ́ρῐον tò kollū́rion | κολλῡρῐ́ω kollūríō | τᾰ̀ κολλῡ́ρῐᾰ tà kollū́ria | ||||||||||
Vocative | κολλῡ́ρῐον kollū́rion | κολλῡρῐ́ω kollūríō | κολλῡ́ρῐᾰ kollū́ria | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: collȳrium
Further reading
- κολλύριον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κολλύριον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κολλύριον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette