κόλλιξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes undoubtedly of Pre-Greek origin, because of the suffix "-ῑκ-".

Possibly an Iranian borrowing related to Persian کلیچه (količe), کلوچه (koluče).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kól.liːks/ → /ˈkol.liks/ → /ˈko.liks/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kól.liːks/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.liks/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.liks/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.liks/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.liks/

Noun

κόλλῑξ • (kóllīx) m (genitive κόλλῑκος); third declension

1. roll or loaf of coarse bread

   Synonym: κολλῡ́ρᾱ (kollū́rā)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ κόλλῑξ; τοῦ κόλλῑκος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόλλῑξ ho kóllīx	τὼ κόλλῑκε tṑ kóllīke	οἱ κόλλῑκες hoi kóllīkes
Genitive	τοῦ κόλλῑκος toû kóllīkos	τοῖν κολλῑ́κοιν toîn kollī́koin	τῶν κολλῑ́κων tôn kollī́kōn
Dative	τῷ κόλλῑκῐ tôi kóllīki	τοῖν κολλῑ́κοιν toîn kollī́koin	τοῖς κόλλῑξῐ / κόλλῑξῐν toîs kóllīxi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόλλῑκᾰ tòn kóllīka	τὼ κόλλῑκε tṑ kóllīke	τοὺς κόλλῑκᾰς toùs kóllīkas
Vocative	κόλλῑξ kóllīx	κόλλῑκε kóllīke	κόλλῑκες kóllīkes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολλῑκοφᾰ́γος (kollīkophágos)
• κολλῑ́κῐον (kollī́kion)
• κολλῑ́κῐος (kollī́kios)

 

Descendants

• → Russian: кулич (kulič)
  • → English: kulich

Further reading

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