κολόβιον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολοβός (kolobós, “docked, curtailed”) +‎ -ῐον (-ion, diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.ló.bi.on/ → /koˈlo.βi.on/ → /koˈlo.vi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.ló.bi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.bi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.βi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.vi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /koˈlo.vi.on/

Noun

κολόβῐον • (kolóbion) n (genitive κολοβῐ́ου); second declension

1. short-sleeved tunic
2. clavus (purple stripe on the tunic)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κολόβῐον; τοῦ κολοβῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κολόβῐον tò kolóbion	τὼ κολοβῐ́ω tṑ kolobíō	τᾰ̀ κολόβῐᾰ tà kolóbia
Genitive	τοῦ κολοβῐ́ου toû kolobíou	τοῖν κολοβῐ́οιν toîn kolobíoin	τῶν κολοβῐ́ων tôn kolobíōn
Dative	τῷ κολοβῐ́ῳ tôi kolobíōi	τοῖν κολοβῐ́οιν toîn kolobíoin	τοῖς κολοβῐ́οις toîs kolobíois
Accusative	τὸ κολόβῐον tò kolóbion	τὼ κολοβῐ́ω tṑ kolobíō	τᾰ̀ κολόβῐᾰ tà kolóbia
Vocative	κολόβῐον kolóbion	κολοβῐ́ω kolobíō	κολόβῐᾰ kolóbia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: colobium
  • → Italian: colobio

Further reading

• “κολόβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολόβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette