κόλαξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

A colloquial Attic word without established etymology. According to Beekes, it could be of Pre-Greek origin, due to the suffix -ακ- (-ak-).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κόλᾰξ • (kólăx) m (genitive κόλᾰκος); third declension (Attic)

  1. flatterer, fawner
    • 421 BCE, Aristophanes, Peace 756:
      ἑκατὸν δὲ κύκλῳ κεφαλαὶ κολάκων οἰμωξομένων ἐλιχμῶντο / περὶ τὴν κεφαλήν
      hekatòn dè kúklōi kephalaì kolákōn oimōxoménōn elikhmônto / perì tḕn kephalḗn
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Ergocles 4
    • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 240b

Declension

Third declension of ὁ κόλᾰξ; τοῦ κόλᾰκος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κόλᾰξ
ho kólăx 		τὼ κόλᾰκε
tṑ kólăke 		οἱ κόλᾰκες
hoi kólăkes
Genitive τοῦ κόλᾰκος
toû kólăkos 		τοῖν κολᾰ́κοιν
toîn kolắkoin 		τῶν κολᾰ́κων
tôn kolắkōn
Dative τῷ κόλᾰκῐ
tōî kólăkĭ 		τοῖν κολᾰ́κοιν
toîn kolắkoin 		τοῖς κόλᾰξῐ / κόλᾰξῐν
toîs kólăxĭ(n)
Accusative τὸν κόλᾰκᾰ
tòn kólăkă 		τὼ κόλᾰκε
tṑ kólăke 		τοὺς κόλᾰκᾰς
toùs kólăkăs
Vocative κόλᾰξ
kólăx 		κόλᾰκε
kólăke 		κόλᾰκες
kólăkes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόλαξ, -ᾱκος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 734

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