κολώνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH- (“to rise”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”), and Lithuanian kálnas (“mountain”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.lɔ̌ː.nɛː/ → /koˈlo.ni/ → /koˈlo.ni/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.lɔ̌ː.nɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.ne̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.ni/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.ni/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.ni/

Noun

κολώνη • (kolṓnē) f (genitive κολώνης); first declension

1. hill, mound, especially a sepulchral mound
   1. hilltop, peak

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κολώνη; τῆς κολώνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κολώνη hē kolṓnē	τὼ κολώνᾱ tṑ kolṓnā	αἱ κολῶναι hai kolônai
Genitive	τῆς κολώνης tês kolṓnēs	τοῖν κολώναιν toîn kolṓnain	τῶν κολωνῶν tôn kolōnôn
Dative	τῇ κολώνῃ têi kolṓnēi	τοῖν κολώναιν toîn kolṓnain	ταῖς κολώναις taîs kolṓnais
Accusative	τὴν κολώνην tḕn kolṓnēn	τὼ κολώνᾱ tṑ kolṓnā	τᾱ̀ς κολώνᾱς tā̀s kolṓnās
Vocative	κολώνη kolṓnē	κολώνᾱ kolṓnā	κολῶναι kolônai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολωνία (kolōnía, “grave”)

Further reading

• “κολώνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολώνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κολώνη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011