κόλπος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelp- (“to curve, arch”), which would also be the source of Proto-Germanic *hwalfą (“vault, arch”),[1][2][3] though Greek *πόλπος (*pólpos) would be expected, and the semantics are distant.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kól.pos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkol.pos/
Noun[edit]
κόλπος • (kólpos) m (genitive κόλπου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Doric, Aeolic, Koine)
- bosom, lap
- a fold in fabric around the bosom
- 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, 15 134:
- λύσασαι δὲ κόμαν καὶ ἐπὶ σφυρὰ κόλπον ἀνεῖσαι
- lúsasai dè kóman kaì epì sphurà kólpon aneîsai
- λύσασαι δὲ κόμαν καὶ ἐπὶ σφυρὰ κόλπον ἀνεῖσαι
- any hollow space, pocket
- especially of water, the hollow between waves
- gulf, bay, creek
Declension[edit]
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ κόλπος ho kólpos |
τὼ κόλπω tṑ kólpō |
οἱ κόλποι hoi kólpoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κόλπου toû kólpou |
τοῖν κόλποιν toîn kólpoin |
τῶν κόλπων tôn kólpōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κόλπῳ tôi kólpōi |
τοῖν κόλποιν toîn kólpoin |
τοῖς κόλποις toîs kólpois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν κόλπον tòn kólpon |
τὼ κόλπω tṑ kólpō |
τοὺς κόλπους toùs kólpous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόλπε kólpe |
κόλπω kólpō |
κόλποι kólpoi | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms[edit]
- βᾰθῠ́κολπος (bathúkolpos)
- μελᾰνόκολπος (melanókolpos)
- Σαχαλίτης κόλπος (Sakhalítēs kólpos)
Descendants[edit]
- → Greek: κόλπος (kólpos) (learned)
- → Latin: colfus, colphus, culfus
- → New Latin: colpos, colpus (learned)
- → Azerbaijani: körfəz
- → Ottoman Turkish: كورفز (körfez)
- > Turkish: körfez (inherited)
- → Uyghur: كۆرپەز (körpez)
- → Uzbek: koʻrfaz
Further reading[edit]
- “κόλπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόλπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόλπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόλπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- κόλπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “κόλπος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2859 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
References[edit]
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόλπος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 740-741
Greek[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κόλπος (kólpos). Doublet of κόρφος (kórfos).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
κόλπος • (kólpos) m (plural κόλποι)
Declension[edit]
declension of κόλπος
Synonyms[edit]
- (vagina): κολεός m (koleós)
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