κολοιτία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Clearly related to κολουτέα (koloutéa, “bladder senna”) and κολοιτέα (koloitéa, “grey sallow”). A Pre-Greek word, given the variations.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.tí.aː/ → /ko.lyˈti.a/ → /ko.liˈti.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ko.loi̯.tí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ko.lyˈti.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ko.liˈti.a/

Noun

κολοιτῐ́ᾱ • (koloitíā) f (genitive κολοιτῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. Cytisus aeolicus, a tree growing in the Lipari island

Declension

First declension of ἡ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ hē koloitíā	τὼ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ tṑ koloitíā	αἱ κολοιτῐ́αι hai koloitíai
Genitive	τῆς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς tês koloitíās	τοῖν κολοιτῐ́αιν toîn koloitíain	τῶν κολοιτῐῶν tôn koloitiôn
Dative	τῇ κολοιτῐ́ᾳ têi koloitíāi	τοῖν κολοιτῐ́αιν toîn koloitíain	ταῖς κολοιτῐ́αις taîs koloitíais
Accusative	τὴν κολοιτῐ́ᾱν tḕn koloitíān	τὼ κολοιτῐ́ᾱ tṑ koloitíā	τᾱ̀ς κολοιτῐ́ᾱς tā̀s koloitíās
Vocative	κολοιτῐ́ᾱ koloitíā	κολοιτῐ́ᾱ koloitíā	κολοιτῐ́αι koloitíai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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