κόλαφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολάπτω (koláptō, “to peck”), a Pre-Greek word according to Beekes, who doubts connections to Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat”).

Compare also Persian گوپال (gupâl).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.la.pʰos/ → /ˈko.la.ɸos/ → /ˈko.la.fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.la.pʰos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.la.fos/

Noun

κόλᾰφος • (kólaphos) m (genitive κολᾰ́φου); second declension

1. a buffet, a blow

Declension

Second declension of ὁ κόλᾰφος; τοῦ κολᾰ́φου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόλᾰφος ho kólaphos	τὼ κολᾰ́φω tṑ koláphō	οἱ κόλᾰφοι hoi kólaphoi
Genitive	τοῦ κολᾰ́φου toû koláphou	τοῖν κολᾰ́φοιν toîn koláphoin	τῶν κολᾰ́φων tôn koláphōn
Dative	τῷ κολᾰ́φῳ tôi koláphōi	τοῖν κολᾰ́φοιν toîn koláphoin	τοῖς κολᾰ́φοις toîs koláphois
Accusative	τὸν κόλᾰφον tòn kólaphon	τὼ κολᾰ́φω tṑ koláphō	τοὺς κολᾰ́φους toùs koláphous
Vocative	κόλᾰφε kólaphe	κολᾰ́φω koláphō	κόλᾰφοι kólaphoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κόλαφος (kólafos)
• → Latin: colaphus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κόλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόλαφος 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

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

κόλαφος • (kólafos) m (plural κόλαφοι)

1. slap (to the face)

Declension

Declension of κόλαφος

	singular	plural
nominative	κόλαφος •	κόλαφοι •
genitive	κολάφου •	κολάφων •
accusative	κόλαφο •	κολάφους •
vocative	κόλαφε •	κόλαφοι •

Synonyms

• see: χαστούκι n (chastoúki)

Further reading

• “κόλαφος”, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998