κολοκασία

Ancient Greek

Colocasia esculenta
Nymphaea lotus
Colocasia esculenta
Nelumbo nucifera

Alternative forms

  • κολοκᾱ́σῐον (kolokā́sĭon)

Etymology

Of uncertain Asiatic origin shared with Mishnaic Hebrew קולקס, קרקס (“taro”) and Arabic قُلْقَاس (qulqās, “taro”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ • (kolokāsĭ́ā) f (genitive κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς); first declension

  1. rhizome of the Egyptian water-lily (Nymphaea lotus) (Koine)
  2. rhizome of the Indian sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) (Koine)
  3. taro, eddo (Colocasia esculenta plant and produce) [from 4th century CE]

Declension

First declension of ἡ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ; τῆς κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ
hē kolokāsĭ́ā 		τὼ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ
tṑ kolokāsĭ́ā 		αἱ κολοκᾱσῐ́αι
hai kolokāsĭ́ai
Genitive τῆς κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς
tês kolokāsĭ́ās 		τοῖν κολοκᾱσῐ́αιν
toîn kolokāsĭ́ain 		τῶν κολοκᾱσῐῶν
tôn kolokāsĭôn
Dative τῇ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾳ
tēî kolokāsĭ́āi 		τοῖν κολοκᾱσῐ́αιν
toîn kolokāsĭ́ain 		ταῖς κολοκᾱσῐ́αις
taîs kolokāsĭ́ais
Accusative τὴν κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱν
tḕn kolokāsĭ́ān 		τὼ κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ
tṑ kolokāsĭ́ā 		τᾱ̀ς κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱς
tā̀s kolokāsĭ́ās
Vocative κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ
kolokāsĭ́ā 		κολοκᾱσῐ́ᾱ
kolokāsĭ́ā 		κολοκᾱσῐ́αι
kolokāsĭ́ai
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: κολοκάσι (kolokási), κολοκάτσι (kolokátsi) — demotic, κολοκάσιν (kolokásin), κολοκάτσιν (kolokátsin) — Cyprus
    • Turkish: gölevez, kolokas, kolokaz, kolakas, kologas, gologas, gologaz, kolakoz, gölegeş, göleğez, göleğiz, golağaz, oğlaz, ölağaz, öleğez, kokguç
  • → Latin: colocāsia

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