κολυμβάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολῠμβᾰ́ω (kolŭmbắō, “to plunge, dive”) +‎ -ᾰ́ς (-ắs).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.lym.bás/ → /ko.lymˈbas/ → /ko.limˈbas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.lym.bás/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.lymˈbas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.lymˈbas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.lymˈbas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.limˈbas/

Noun

κολῠμβᾰ́ς • (kolŭmbắs) f (genitive κολῠμβᾰ́δος); third declension

1. olive pickled in brine
2. thorny burnet (Sarcopterium spinosum)

   Synonym: στοιβή (stoibḗ)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κολῠμβᾰ́ς; τῆς κολῠμβᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κολῠμβᾰ́ς hē kolŭmbắs	τὼ κολῠμβᾰ́δε tṑ kolŭmbắde	αἱ κολῠμβᾰ́δες hai kolŭmbắdes
Genitive	τῆς κολῠμβᾰ́δος tês kolŭmbắdos	τοῖν κολῠμβᾰ́δοιν toîn kolŭmbắdoin	τῶν κολῠμβᾰ́δων tôn kolŭmbắdōn
Dative	τῇ κολῠμβᾰ́δῐ têi kolŭmbắdĭ	τοῖν κολῠμβᾰ́δοιν toîn kolŭmbắdoin	ταῖς κολῠμβᾰ́σῐ / κολῠμβᾰ́σῐν taîs kolŭmbắsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κολῠμβᾰ́δᾰ tḕn kolŭmbắdă	τὼ κολῠμβᾰ́δε tṑ kolŭmbắde	τᾱ̀ς κολῠμβᾰ́δᾰς tā̀s kolŭmbắdăs
Vocative	κολῠμβᾰ́ς kolŭmbắs	κολῠμβᾰ́δε kolŭmbắde	κολῠμβᾰ́δες kolŭmbắdes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Further reading

• “κολυμβάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολυμβάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette