κόλλα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kol-, with cognates including Russian кле́й (kléj), Middle Dutch helen.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kól.la/ → /ˈkol.la/ → /ˈko.la/

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

Noun

κόλλᾰ • (kólla) f (genitive κόλλης); first declension (dative κολλη) (Isa. 44:13)

1. glue
2. flour paste

Inflection

First declension of ἡ κόλλᾰ; τῆς κόλλης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κόλλᾰ hē kólla	τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā	αἱ κόλλαι hai kóllai
Genitive	τῆς κόλλης tês kóllēs	τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain	τῶν κολλῶν tôn kollôn
Dative	τῇ κόλλῃ têi kóllēi	τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain	ταῖς κόλλαις taîs kóllais
Accusative	τὴν κόλλᾰν tḕn kóllan	τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā	τᾱ̀ς κόλλᾱς tā̀s kóllās
Vocative	κόλλᾰ kólla	κόλλᾱ kóllā	κόλλαι kóllai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla)
• λιθόκολλα (lithókolla)
• σαρκοκόλλα (sarkokólla)
• χρῡσοκόλλᾰ (khrūsokólla)

 

Further reading

• “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόλλα in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • glue idem, page 363.

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.la/
• Hyphenation: κόλ‧λα
• Homophone: κόλα (kóla)

Noun

κόλλα • (kólla) f (plural κόλλες)

1. glue, gum

   see κόλλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

2. sizing, size
3. flour paste, starch paste, starch glue

Declension

Declension of κόλλα

	singular	plural
nominative	κόλλα (kólla)	κόλλες (kólles)
genitive	κόλλας (kóllas)	-
accusative	κόλλα (kólla)	κόλλες (kólles)
vocative	κόλλα (kólla)	κόλλες (kólles)

Synonyms

• (starch/flour based): αμυλόκολλα f (amylókolla)

Related terms

• κόλληση f (kóllisi, “process of glueing”)
• κόλλημα n (kóllima, “glueing, glued joint”)

See also

• and compare with: κόλα f (kóla, “piece of paper”)

Verb

κόλλα • (kólla)

1. second-person singular imperfect active perfective imperative of κολλάω (kolláo), the passive of κολλώ (kolló)

   alternative form: κόλλαγε (kóllage)

2. second-person singular simple past active perfective imperative of κολλάω (kolláo), the passive of κολλώ (kolló)

   alternative form: κόλλησε (kóllise)

Derived terms

• κόλλα το! (kólla to!, “literally: stick it!”)
• κόλλα πέντε! (kólla pénte!)

Further reading

• κόλλα, κολλώ, -άω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language