κόλυμβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Possibly Pre-Greek. Compare Latin columba (“dove”), which may be a borrowing from Greek. Also compare with Proto-Slavic *kъlpь (“swan”).[1] Compare also Proto-Nuristani *carāmba (“parrot”) and Old Armenian սալամբ (salamb).

According to Beekes, κολυμβάω (kolumbáō, “I dive”) is a denominative verbal derivation.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κόλυμβος • (kólumbos) m (genitive κολύμβου); second declension

  1. alternative form of κολυμβῐ́ς (kolumbĭ́s, “diver; little grebe (Podiceps minor)”)
  2. alternative form of κολύμβησῐς (kolúmbēsĭs, “pearl fishing”)
  3. alternative form of κολυμβήθρᾱ (kolumbḗthrā, “place for swimming”)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόλυμβος; τοῦ κολύμβου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ κόλυμβος
ho kólumbos 		τὼ κολύμβω
tṑ kolúmbō 		οἱ κόλυμβοι
hoi kólumboi
Genitive τοῦ κολύμβου
toû kolúmbou 		τοῖν κολύμβοιν
toîn kolúmboin 		τῶν κολύμβων
tôn kolúmbōn
Dative τῷ κολύμβῳ
tōî kolúmbōi 		τοῖν κολύμβοιν
toîn kolúmboin 		τοῖς κολύμβοις
toîs kolúmbois
Accusative τὸν κόλυμβον
tòn kólumbon 		τὼ κολύμβω
tṑ kolúmbō 		τοὺς κολύμβους
toùs kolúmbous
Vocative κόλυμβε
kólumbe 		κολύμβω
kolúmbō 		κόλυμβοι
kólumboi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Latin: columba, colymbus

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κόλυμβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 741

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