κόλπος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve, arch”), which would also be the source of Proto-Germanic *hwalfą (“vault, arch”),[1][2][3] though Greek *πόλπος (*pólpos) would be expected, and the semantics are distant.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kól.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
Noun
κόλπος • (kólpos) m (genitive κόλπου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Doric, Aeolic, Koine)
- bosom, lap
- a fold in fabric around the bosom
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, 15 134:
- λύσασαι δὲ κόμαν καὶ ἐπὶ σφυρὰ κόλπον ἀνεῖσαι
- lúsasai dè kóman kaì epì sphurà kólpon aneîsai
- λύσασαι δὲ κόμαν καὶ ἐπὶ σφυρὰ κόλπον ἀνεῖσαι
- any hollow space, pocket
- especially of water, the hollow between waves
- gulf, bay, creek
Declension
Second declension of ὁ κόλπος; τοῦ κόλπου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κόλπος ho kólpos | τὼ κόλπω tṑ kólpō | οἱ κόλποι hoi kólpoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κόλπου toû kólpou | τοῖν κόλποιν toîn kólpoin | τῶν κόλπων tôn kólpōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κόλπῳ tôi kólpōi | τοῖν κόλποιν toîn kólpoin | τοῖς κόλποις toîs kólpois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κόλπον tòn kólpon | τὼ κόλπω tṑ kólpō | τοὺς κόλπους toùs kólpous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κόλπε kólpe | κόλπω kólpō | κόλποι kólpoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- βᾰθῠ́κολπος (bathúkolpos)
- μελᾰνόκολπος (melanókolpos)
- Σαχαλίτης κόλπος (Sakhalítēs kólpos)
Descendants
(many Romance descendants through a Late or Vulgar Latin intermediate)
- → Greek: κόλπος (kólpos) (learned)
- Asturian: golfu
- Catalan: golf
- French: gouffre
- Friulian: golf
- Italian: golfo
- → German: Golf
- → Czech: golf
- → Norwegian: golf
- → Old French: golfe
- French: golfe
- → Romanian: golf
- → Middle English: gulf
- English: gulf
- French: golfe
- → German: Golf
- → New Latin: colpos, colpus (learned)
- Occitan: golfe
- Portuguese: golfo
- Turkish: körfez
- Sicilian: gurfu
- Spanish: golfo
- Azerbaijani: körfəz
Further reading
- “κόλπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόλπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόλπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόλπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κόλπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κόλπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2859 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bay idem, page 65.
- bosom idem, page 90.
- breast idem, page 96.
- cove idem, page 179.
- creek idem, page 183.
- estuary idem, page 284.
- fold idem, page 332.
- gulf idem, page 379.
- inlet idem, page 442.
- lap idem, page 476.
- tuck idem, page 900.
- valley idem, page 943.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κόλπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 740-741
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos). Doublet of κόρφος (kórfos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
Noun
κόλπος • (kólpos) m (plural κόλποι)
- bosom
- bay, gulf
- (anatomy) vagina
- (anatomy) atrium (of the heart)
Declension
declension of κόλπος
case \\ number | singular | plural |
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nominative | κόλπος • | κόλποι • |
genitive | κόλπου • | κόλπων • |
accusative | κόλπο • | κόλπους • |
vocative | κόλπε • | κόλποι • |
Synonyms
- (vagina): κολεός m (koleós)
Related terms
- κολπίτιδα f (kolpítida, “vaginitis”)