κόλυμβος

Ancient Greek

Pre-Greek. Compare Latin columba (“dove”), which may be a borrowing from Greek. Also compare with Proto-Slavic *kъlpь (“swan”).^[1]

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

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

Alternative form of κολυμβῐ́ς (kolumbís, “diver; little grebe (Podiceps minor)”)
Alternative form of κολύμβησῐς (kolúmbēsis, “pearl fishing”)
Alternative form of κολυμβήθρᾱ (kolumbḗthrā, “place for swimming”)

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 tôi 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.

^ 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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κόλυμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
κόλυμβος 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
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