κολώνη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥Hnís (“hill”), from the root *kelH-. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *hulliz (“hill”), Latin collis (“hill”) and Lithuanian kálnas (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.lɔ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /koˈlo.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /koˈlo.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /koˈlo.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /koˈlo.ni/
Noun
κολώνη • (kolṓnē) f (genitive κολώνης); first declension
- hill, mound, especially a sepulchral mound
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κολωνία (kolōnía, “grave”)
References
- “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
- 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
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