κολλύρα

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κολλούρᾱ (kolloúrā)

Etymology

Like other words in -ῡρᾱ, probably Pre-Greek. If the variation ῡ/ου is old, this also points to Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kol.ly̌ː.raː/ → /kolˈly.ra/ → /koˈli.ra/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kol.ly̌ː.raː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kolˈly.ra/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kolˈly.ra/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kolˈly.ra/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈli.ra/

Noun

κολλῡ́ρᾱ • (kollū́rā) f (genitive κολλῡ́ρᾱς); first declension

1. roll or loaf of bread

   Synonym: κόλλῑξ (kóllīx)

Declension

First declension of ἡ κολλῡ́ρᾱ; τῆς κολλῡ́ρᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κολλῡ́ρᾱ hē kollū́rā	τὼ κολλῡ́ρᾱ tṑ kollū́rā	αἱ κολλῦραι hai kollûrai
Genitive	τῆς κολλῡ́ρᾱς tês kollū́rās	τοῖν κολλῡ́ραιν toîn kollū́rain	τῶν κολλῡρῶν tôn kollūrôn
Dative	τῇ κολλῡ́ρᾳ têi kollū́rāi	τοῖν κολλῡ́ραιν toîn kollū́rain	ταῖς κολλῡ́ραις taîs kollū́rais
Accusative	τὴν κολλῡ́ρᾱν tḕn kollū́rān	τὼ κολλῡ́ρᾱ tṑ kollū́rā	τᾱ̀ς κολλῡ́ρᾱς tā̀s kollū́rās
Vocative	κολλῡ́ρᾱ kollū́rā	κολλῡ́ρᾱ kollū́rā	κολλῦραι kollûrai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολλῡρῐ́ζω (kollūrízō)
• κολλῡρῐκός (kollūrikós)
• κολλῡ́ρῐον (kollū́rion)
• κολλῡρῐ́ς (kollūrís)

 

Descendants

• → Latin: collȳra
• Sicilian: cuḍḍura

Further reading

• “κολλύρα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολλύρα 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