κόλυμβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly Pre-Greek. Compare Latin columba (“dove”), which may be a borrowing from Greek. Also compare with Proto-Slavic *kъlpь (“swan”). Compare also Proto-Nuristani *carāmba (“parrot”) and Old Armenian սալամբ (salamb).

According to Beekes, κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “to dive”) is a denominative verbal derivation.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.lym.bos/ → /ˈko.lym.bos/ → /ˈko.lim.bos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.lym.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lym.bos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.lim.bos/

Noun

κόλυμβος • (kólumbos) m (genitive κολύμβου); second declension

1. alternative form of κολυμβῐ́ς (kolumbĭ́s, “diver; little grebe (Podiceps minor)”)
2. alternative form of κολύμβησῐς (kolúmbēsĭs, “pearl fishing”)
3. alternative form of κολυμβήθρᾱ (kolumbḗthrā, “place for swimming”)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόλυμβος; τοῦ κολύμβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόλυμβος ho kólumbos	τὼ κολύμβω tṑ kolúmbō	οἱ κόλυμβοι hoi kólumboi
Genitive	τοῦ κολύμβου toû kolúmbou	τοῖν κολύμβοιν toîn kolúmboin	τῶν κολύμβων tôn kolúmbōn
Dative	τῷ κολύμβῳ tōî kolúmbōi	τοῖν κολύμβοιν toîn kolúmboin	τοῖς κολύμβοις toîs kolúmbois
Accusative	τὸν κόλυμβον tòn kólumbon	τὼ κολύμβω tṑ kolúmbō	τοὺς κολύμβους toùs kolúmbous
Vocative	κόλυμβε kólumbe	κολύμβω kolúmbō	κόλυμβοι kólumboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολυμβάω (kolumbáō)

Descendants

• Latin: columba, colymbus

Further reading

• “κόλυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόλυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόλυμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόλυμβος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 379