κολοκύνθη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κολοκῠ́νθα (kolokúntha), κολοκῠ́νθος (kolokúnthos), κολοκῠ́ντη (kolokúntē)
Etymology
The suffix, frequent in plant names, is typical of Pre-Greek words. The word has also been compared with Sanskrit कालिन्द (kālinda, “watermelon”), because an informant in Athenaeus says that it was introduced from India.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kýn.tʰɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.loˈkyn.tʰe̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.loˈcyn.θi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.loˈcyn.θi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.loˈcin.θi/
Noun
κολοκῠ́νθη • (kolokúnthē) f (genitive κολοκῠ́νθης); first declension
- bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)
- round gourd
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κολοκῠ́νθη; τῆς κολοκῠ́νθης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κολοκῠ́νθη hē kolokúnthē | τὼ κολοκῠ́νθᾱ tṑ kolokúnthā | αἱ κολοκῠ́νθαι hai kolokúnthai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κολοκῠ́νθης tês kolokúnthēs | τοῖν κολοκῠ́νθαιν toîn kolokúnthain | τῶν κολοκῠνθῶν tôn kolokunthôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κολοκῠ́νθῃ têi kolokúnthēi | τοῖν κολοκῠ́νθαιν toîn kolokúnthain | ταῖς κολοκῠ́νθαις taîs kolokúnthais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κολοκῠ́νθην tḕn kolokúnthēn | τὼ κολοκῠ́νθᾱ tṑ kolokúnthā | τᾱ̀ς κολοκῠ́νθᾱς tā̀s kolokúnthās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κολοκῠ́νθη kolokúnthē | κολοκῠ́νθᾱ kolokúnthā | κολοκῠ́νθαι kolokúnthai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κολοκυνθιάς (kolokunthiás)
- κολοκύνθινος (kolokúnthinos)
- κολοκυνθίς (kolokunthís)
- κολοκυνθών (kolokunthṓn)
Descendants
- Greek: κολοκύθα (kolokýtha)
Further reading
- “κολοκύνθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κολοκύνθη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κολοκύνθη 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