κολοκασία
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κολοκᾱ́σῐον (kolokā́sion)
Etymology
Of uncertain Asiatic origin shared with Mishnaic Hebrew קולקס, קרקס (“taro”) and Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās, “taro”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kaː.sí.aː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kaˈsi.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kaˈsi.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kaˈsi.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.lo.kaˈsi.a/
Noun
κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ • (kolokāsíā) f (genitive κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- rhizome of the Egyptian water-lily (Nymphaea lotus) (Koine)
- rhizome of the Indian sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) (Koine)
- taro, eddo (Colocasia esculenta plant and produce) [from 4th century CE]
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ hē kolokāsíā |
τὼ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolokāsíā |
αἱ κολοκᾱσῐ́αι hai kolokāsíai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς tês kolokāsíās |
τοῖν κολοκᾱσῐ́αιν toîn kolokāsíain |
τῶν κολοκᾱσῐῶν tôn kolokāsiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾳ têi kolokāsíāi |
τοῖν κολοκᾱσῐ́αιν toîn kolokāsíain |
ταῖς κολοκᾱσῐ́αις taîs kolokāsíais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱν tḕn kolokāsíān |
τὼ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolokāsíā |
τᾱ̀ς κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς tā̀s kolokāsíās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ kolokāsíā |
κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ kolokāsíā |
κολοκᾱσῐ́αι kolokāsíai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “κολοκασία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κολοκασία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Grimaldi, Ilaria Maria (2018 June 5) “Literary evidence for taro in the ancient Mediterranean: A chronology of names and uses in a multilingual world”, in PLoS One, volume 13, number 6,
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