κολῳός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of κολοιός (koloiós, “jackdaw”) and κολοίφρυξ (koloíphrux, “Tanagrian cock”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.lɔːi̯.ós/ → /ko.loˈos/ → /ko.loˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.lɔːi̯.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.loˈos/

Noun

κολῳός • (kolōiós) m (genitive κολῳοῦ); second declension

1. brawling, noisy wrangling, racket

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κολῳός; τοῦ κολῳοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κολῳός ho kolōiós	τὼ κολῳώ tṑ kolōiṓ	οἱ κολῳοί hoi kolōioí
Genitive	τοῦ κολῳοῦ toû kolōioû	τοῖν κολῳοῖν toîn kolōioîn	τῶν κολῳῶν tôn kolōiôn
Dative	τῷ κολῳῷ tôi kolōiôi	τοῖν κολῳοῖν toîn kolōioîn	τοῖς κολῳοῖς toîs kolōioîs
Accusative	τὸν κολῳόν tòn kolōión	τὼ κολῳώ tṑ kolōiṓ	τοὺς κολῳούς toùs kolōioús
Vocative	κολῳέ kolōié	κολῳώ kolōiṓ	κολῳοί kolōioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κολῳός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κολῳός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κολῳός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κολῳός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κολῳός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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