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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From κολάζω (kolázō) + -σις (-sis).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/ → /ˈko.la.sis/
Noun
κόλᾰσῐς • (kólasis) f (genitive κολάσεως); third declension
- chastisement, correction, punishment
Declension
Descendants
References
Further reading
- κόλασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κόλασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G2851 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “κόλασις”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011