κολοφών
Ancient Greek
FWOTD – 18 October 2014
Etymology
- According to Pokorny cognate with κολώνη (kolṓnē) "hill", Latin collis "hill", the sense of "topping, finishing" derives figuratively from the one of "top".
- According to Strabο (Geographica 14:1:28), from Κολοφών (Kolophṓn, “Colophon”) as coming from the belief that the cavalry of Colophon was so excellent, that it always decided the contest.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.loˈpʰon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.loˈɸon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.loˈfon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.loˈfon/
Noun
κολοφών • (kolophṓn) m (genitive κολοφῶνος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κολοφών ho kolophṓn |
τὼ κολοφῶνε tṑ kolophône |
οἱ κολοφῶνες hoi kolophônes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κολοφῶνος toû kolophônos |
τοῖν κολοφώνοιν toîn kolophṓnoin |
τῶν κολοφώνων tôn kolophṓnōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κολοφῶνῐ tôi kolophôni |
τοῖν κολοφώνοιν toîn kolophṓnoin |
τοῖς κολοφῶσῐ / κολοφῶσῐν toîs kolophôsi(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κολοφῶνᾰ tòn kolophôna |
τὼ κολοφῶνε tṑ kolophône |
τοὺς κολοφῶνᾰς toùs kolophônas | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κολοφών kolophṓn |
κολοφῶνε kolophône |
κολοφῶνες kolophônes | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- (jackdaw): κολοιός (koloiós)
Descendants
- → French: colophon
- Greek: κολοφώνας (kolofónas)
Further reading
- “κολοφών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κολοφών”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κολοφών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- consummation idem, page 166.
- coping-stone idem, page 173.
- crown idem, page 186.
- finishing idem, page 322.
- 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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