"κολοφών" meaning in Ancient Greek

See κολοφών in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/, /ko.loˈɸon/, /ko.loˈfon/, /ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ko.loˈpʰon/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ko.loˈɸon/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ko.loˈfon/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ko.loˈfon/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: * According to Pokorny cognate with κολώνη (kolṓnē) "hill", Latin collis "hill", the sense of "topping, finishing" derives figuratively from the one of "top". * According to Strabο (Geographica 14:1:28), from Κολοφών (Kolophṓn, “Colophon”) as coming from the belief that the cavalry of Colophon was so excellent, that it always decided the contest. Head templates: {{grc-noun|κολοφῶνος|m|third}} κολοφών • (kolophṓn) m (genitive κολοφῶνος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|κολοφών|κολοφῶνος}} Forms: kolophṓn [romanization], κολοφῶνος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], ὁ κολοφών [nominative, singular], τὼ κολοφῶνε [dual, nominative], οἱ κολοφῶνες [nominative, plural], τοῦ κολοφῶνος [genitive, singular], τοῖν κολοφώνοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν κολοφώνων [genitive, plural], τῷ κολοφῶνῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν κολοφώνοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς κολοφῶσῐ [dative, plural], κολοφῶσῐν [dative, plural], toîs kolophôsi [dative, plural], toîs kolophôsin [dative, plural], τὸν κολοφῶνᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ κολοφῶνε [accusative, dual], τοὺς κολοφῶνᾰς [accusative, plural], κολοφών [singular, vocative], κολοφῶνε [dual, vocative], κολοφῶνες [plural, vocative]
  1. a summit, top, finishing
    Sense id: en-κολοφών-grc-noun-Ok7l8VT1
  2. a type of playing ball
    Sense id: en-κολοφών-grc-noun-ax7S4DB8
  3. (hapax, according to Hesychius) jackdaw, daw, grackle
    Sense id: en-κολοφών-grc-noun-gjPHA4Ex Categories (other): Ancient Greek hapax legomena
  4. (hapax, according to Hesychius) a type of sea fish Categories (lifeform): Corvids, Fish
    Sense id: en-κολοφών-grc-noun-MDXvbsiL Disambiguation of Corvids: 2 32 3 63 Disambiguation of Fish: 1 20 1 78 Categories (other): Ancient Greek hapax legomena, Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 5 32 3 61 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 13 30 10 47 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 33 2 62 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 33 1 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: κολοιός (koloiós)
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      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
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      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
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      "ipa": "/ko.loˈfon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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    }
  ],
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}
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      "form": "τῶν κολοφώνων",
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      "source": "inflection",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "ipa": "/ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.loˈɸon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.loˈfon/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.lo.pʰɔ̌ːn/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
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      "ipa": "/ko.loˈpʰon/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.loˈɸon/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.loˈfon/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ko.loˈfon/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "koloiós",
      "word": "κολοιός"
    }
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.