κολίας

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation like ἀκανθίας (akanthías), ξιφίας (xiphías), and other fish and animal names; further unexplained.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.lí.aːs/ → /koˈli.as/ → /koˈli.as/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.lí.aːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈli.as/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈli.as/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈli.as/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈli.as/

Noun

κολῐ́ᾱς • (kolíās) m (genitive κολῐ́ου); first declension

1. Atlantic chub mackerel (Scomber colias)

Inflection

First declension of ὁ κολῐ́ᾱς; τοῦ κολῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κολῐ́ᾱς ho kolíās	τὼ κολῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolíā	οἱ κολῐ́αι hoi kolíai
Genitive	τοῦ κολῐ́ου toû kolíou	τοῖν κολῐ́αιν toîn kolíain	τῶν κολῐῶν tôn koliôn
Dative	τῷ κολῐ́ᾳ tôi kolíāi	τοῖν κολῐ́αιν toîn kolíain	τοῖς κολῐ́αις toîs kolíais
Accusative	τὸν κολῐ́ᾱν tòn kolíān	τὼ κολῐ́ᾱ tṑ kolíā	τοὺς κολῐ́ᾱς toùs kolíās
Vocative	κολῐ́ᾱ kolíā	κολῐ́ᾱ kolíā	κολῐ́αι kolíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• > Greek: κολιός (koliós) (inherited)
• → Latin: coliās

Further reading

• “κολίας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολίας 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