κόλαφος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κολάπτω (koláptō, “to peck”), a Pre-Greek word according to Beekes, who doubts connections to Proto-Indo-European *kelh₂- (“to beat”).

Compare also Persian گوپال (gupâl).

Pronunciation

Noun

κόλᾰφος • (kólaphos) m (genitive κολᾰ́φου); second declension

1. a buffet, a blow

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: κόλαφος (kólafos)
• → Latin: colaphus (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “κόλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόλαφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόλαφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos).

Noun

κόλαφος • (kólafos) m (plural κόλαφοι)

1. slap (to the face)

Declension

Synonyms

• see: χαστούκι n (chastoúki)

Further reading

• κόλαφος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.