κόλλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kol-, with cognates including Russian кле́й (kléj), Middle Dutch helen.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kól.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.la/
Noun
κόλλᾰ • (kólla) f (genitive κόλλης); first declension
- glue
- flour paste
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κόλλᾰ; τῆς κόλλης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κόλλᾰ hē kólla | τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā | αἱ κόλλαι hai kóllai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κόλλης tês kóllēs | τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain | τῶν κολλῶν tôn kollôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κόλλῃ têi kóllēi | τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain | ταῖς κόλλαις taîs kóllais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κόλλᾰν tḕn kóllan | τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā | τᾱ̀ς κόλλᾱς tā̀s kóllās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόλλᾰ kólla | κόλλᾱ kóllā | κόλλαι kóllai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla)
- λιθόκολλα (lithókolla)
- σαρκοκόλλα (sarkokólla)
- χρῡσοκόλλᾰ (khrūsokólla)
Further reading
- “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόλλα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- glue idem, page 363.
- 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
Greek
Noun
κόλλα • (kólla) f (plural κόλλες)
- glue, gum
- sizing, size
- flour paste, starch paste, starch glue
Declension
declension of κόλλα
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | κόλλα • | κόλλες • |
genitive | κόλλας • | — |
accusative | κόλλα • | κόλλες • |
vocative | κόλλα • | κόλλες • |
Synonyms
- (starch/flour based): αμυλόκολλα f (amylókolla)
Related terms
- κόλληση f (kóllisi, “process of glueing”)
- κόλλημα n (kóllima, “glueing, glued joint”)
Further reading
κόλλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el