κόλλαβος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κόλλοψ (kóllops)
Etymology
The ending in "-βος" is found also in κάκκαβος (kákkabos), κάναβος (kánabos) and σίττυβος (síttubos). The noun is probably related to κόλλιξ (kóllix, “type of bread”) and κολλύρα (kollúra, “cake, tablet”). The word is no doubt Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kól.la.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.la.vos/
Noun
κόλλαβος • (kóllabos) m (genitive κολλάβου); second declension
- kind of cake or roll
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κόλλαβος; τοῦ κολλάβου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόλλαβος ho kóllabos | τὼ κολλάβω tṑ kollábō | οἱ κόλλαβοι hoi kóllaboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κολλάβου toû kollábou | τοῖν κολλάβοιν toîn kolláboin | τῶν κολλάβων tôn kollábōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κολλάβῳ tôi kollábōi | τοῖν κολλάβοιν toîn kolláboin | τοῖς κολλάβοις toîs kollábois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόλλαβον tòn kóllabon | τὼ κολλάβω tṑ kollábō | τοὺς κολλάβους toùs kollábous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόλλαβε kóllabe | κολλάβω kollábō | κόλλαβοι kóllaboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κολλαβίζω (kollabízō)
Further reading
- κόλλαβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κόλλαβος 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