κόλλα
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *kol-, with cognates including Russian кле́й (kléj), Middle Dutch helen.[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kól.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkol.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈko.la/
Noun
κόλλᾰ • (kóllă) f (genitive κόλλης); first declension (dative κολλη) (Isa. 44:13)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κόλλᾰ hē kóllă |
τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā |
αἱ κόλλαι hai kóllai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κόλλης tês kóllēs |
τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain |
τῶν κολλῶν tôn kollôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κόλλῃ tēî kóllēi |
τοῖν κόλλαιν toîn kóllain |
ταῖς κόλλαις taîs kóllais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κόλλᾰν tḕn kóllăn |
τὼ κόλλᾱ tṑ kóllā |
τᾱ̀ς κόλλᾱς tā̀s kóllās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κόλλᾰ kóllă |
κόλλᾱ kóllā |
κόλλαι kóllai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰχθυόκολλα (ikhthuókolla)
- λιθόκολλα (lithókolla)
- σαρκοκόλλα (sarkokólla)
- χρῡσοκόλλᾰ (khrūsokóllă)
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόλλᾰ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 736
Further reading
- “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόλλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόλλα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόλλα 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.
- glue idem, page 363.
Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈko.la/
- Hyphenation: κόλ‧λα
- Homophone: κόλα (kóla)
Noun
κόλλα • (kólla) f (plural κόλλες)
- glue, gum
- see κόλλα on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- sizing, size
- flour paste, starch paste, starch glue
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | κόλλα (kólla) | κόλλες (kólles) |
| genitive | κόλλας (kóllas) | — |
| accusative | κόλλα (kólla) | κόλλες (kólles) |
| vocative | κόλλα (kólla) | κόλλες (kólles) |
Synonyms
- (starch/flour based): αμυλόκολλα f (amylókolla)
Related terms
- κόλληση f (kóllisi, “process of glueing”)
- κόλλημα n (kóllima, “glueing, glued joint”)
See also
- and compare with: κόλα f (kóla, “piece of paper”)
Verb
κόλλα • (kólla)
- second-person singular imperfect active perfective imperative of κολλάω (kolláo), the passive of κολλώ (kolló)
- alternative form: κόλλαγε (kóllage)
- second-person singular simple past active perfective imperative of κολλάω (kolláo), the passive of κολλώ (kolló)
- alternative form: κόλλησε (kóllise)
Derived terms
- κόλλα το! (kólla to!, “literally: stick it!”)
- κόλλα πέντε! (kólla pénte!)
Further reading
- κόλλα, κολλώ, -άω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language