κολοιτία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to κολουτέα (koloutéa, “bladder senna”) and κολοιτέα (koloitéa, “grey sallow”). A Pre-Greek word, given the variations.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.tí.aː/ → /ko.lyˈti.a/ → /ko.liˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈti.a/

Noun

κολοιτῐ́ᾱ • (koloitĭ́ā) f (genitive κολοιτῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Cytisus aeolicus, a tree growing in the Lipari island

Declension

First declension of ἡ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ hē koloitĭ́ā	τὼ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ tṑ koloitĭ́ā	αἱ κολοιτῐ́αι hai koloitĭ́ai
Genitive	τῆς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς tês koloitĭ́ās	τοῖν κολοιτῐ́αιν toîn koloitĭ́ain	τῶν κολοιτῐῶν tôn koloitĭôn
Dative	τῇ κολοιτῐ́ᾳ têi koloitĭ́āi	τοῖν κολοιτῐ́αιν toîn koloitĭ́ain	ταῖς κολοιτῐ́αις taîs koloitĭ́ais
Accusative	τὴν κολοιτῐ́ᾱν tḕn koloitĭ́ān	τὼ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ tṑ koloitĭ́ā	τᾱ̀ς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koloitĭ́ās
Vocative	κολοιτῐ́ᾱ koloitĭ́ā	κολοιτῐ́ᾱ koloitĭ́ā	κολοιτῐ́αι koloitĭ́ai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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