κόλασις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολάζω (kolázō) +‎ -σις (-sis).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/

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

Noun

κόλᾰσῐς • (kólăsĭs) f (genitive κολάσεως); third declension

1. chastisement, correction, punishment

Declension

Third declension of ἡ κόλᾰσῐς; τῆς κολᾰ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόλᾰσῐς hē kólăsĭs	τὼ κολᾰ́σει tṑ kolắsei	αἱ κολᾰ́σεις hai kolắseis
Genitive	τῆς κολᾰ́σεως tês kolắseōs	τοῖν κολᾰσέοιν toîn kolăséoin	τῶν κολᾰ́σεων tôn kolắseōn
Dative	τῇ κολᾰ́σει têi kolắsei	τοῖν κολᾰσέοιν toîn kolăséoin	ταῖς κολᾰ́σεσῐ / κολᾰ́σεσῐν taîs kolắsesĭ(n)
Accusative	τὴν κόλᾰσῐν tḕn kólăsĭn	τὼ κολᾰ́σει tṑ kolắsei	τᾱ̀ς κολᾰ́σεις tā̀s kolắseis
Vocative	κόλᾰσῐ kólăsĭ	κολᾰ́σει kolắsei	κολᾰ́σεις kolắseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: κόλαση (kólasi)
• → Coptic: ⲕⲟⲗⲁⲥⲓⲥ (kolasis)

Further reading

• κόλασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κόλασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2851 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • castigation idem, page 117.
  • chastening idem, page 127.
  • chastisement idem, page 127.
  • correction idem, page 176.
  • discipline idem, page 229.
  • punishment idem, page 658.
  • retribution idem, page 708.
• “κόλασις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011