κόλλοψ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόλλαβος (kóllabos)

Etymology

A technical term which has been connected to Latin callum (“callosity, thick skin”) or to σκόλοψ (skólops, “pole”). The word is clearly Pre-Greek because of its suffix; this is further confirmed by the variant.

Pronunciation

 

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

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

Noun

κόλλοψ • (kóllops) m (genitive κόλλοπος); third declension

1. peg or screw by which the strings of the lyre were tightened
2. bar by which a windlass was turned
3. thick skin on the upper part of the neck of oxen or swine
4. (figuratively) cinaedus, catamite

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κόλλοψ; τοῦ κόλλοπος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόλλοψ ho kóllops	τὼ κόλλοπε tṑ kóllope	οἱ κόλλοπες hoi kóllopes
Genitive	τοῦ κόλλοπος toû kóllopos	τοῖν κολλόποιν toîn kollópoin	τῶν κολλόπων tôn kollópōn
Dative	τῷ κόλλοπῐ tôi kóllopi	τοῖν κολλόποιν toîn kollópoin	τοῖς κόλλοψῐ / κόλλοψῐν toîs kóllopsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν κόλλοπᾰ tòn kóllopa	τὼ κόλλοπε tṑ kóllope	τοὺς κόλλοπᾰς toùs kóllopas
Vocative	κόλλοψ kóllops	κόλλοπε kóllope	κόλλοπες kóllopes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κολλοπεύω (kollopeúō)
• κολλοπίζω (kollopízō)
• κολλοποδιώκτης (kollopodiṓktēs)
• κολλοπόω (kollopóō)

 

Further reading

• “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόλλοψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κόλλοψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κόλλοψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόλλοψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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