κόλλοψ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

A technical term which has been connected to Latin callum (“callosity, thick skin”) or to σκόλοψ (skólops, “pole”). The word is clearly Pre-Greek because of its suffix; this is further confirmed by the variant.

Pronunciation
 

Noun

κόλλοψ • (kóllops) m (genitive κόλλοπος); third declension

  1. peg or screw by which the strings of the lyre were tightened
  2. bar by which a windlass was turned
  3. thick skin on the upper part of the neck of oxen or swine
  4. (figuratively) cinaedus, catamite

Declension
Third declension of ὁ κόλλοψ; τοῦ κόλλοπος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κόλλοψ
ho kóllops		 τὼ κόλλοπε
tṑ kóllope		 οἱ κόλλοπες
hoi kóllopes
Genitive τοῦ κόλλοπος
toû kóllopos		 τοῖν κολλόποιν
toîn kollópoin		 τῶν κολλόπων
tôn kollópōn
Dative τῷ κόλλοπῐ
tôi kóllopi		 τοῖν κολλόποιν
toîn kollópoin		 τοῖς κόλλοψῐ / κόλλοψῐν
toîs kóllopsi(n)
Accusative τὸν κόλλοπᾰ
tòn kóllopa		 τὼ κόλλοπε
tṑ kóllope		 τοὺς κόλλοπᾰς
toùs kóllopas
Vocative κόλλοψ
kóllops		 κόλλοπε
kóllope		 κόλλοπες
kóllopes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • κολλοπεύω (kollopeúō)
  • κολλοπίζω (kollopízō)
  • κολλοποδιώκτης (kollopodiṓktēs)
  • κολλοπόω (kollopóō)

Further reading
  • “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “κόλλοψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • κόλλοψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • κόλλοψ 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
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