Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /koloɸón/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /kolofón/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /kolofón/

Proper noun

Κολοφών • ‎(Kolophṓn) m ‎(genitive Κολοφῶνος); third declension

1. Colophon

Inflection

Ancient Greek

Noun

κολοφών • ‎(kolophṓn) m ‎(genitive κολοφῶνος); third declension

1. a summit, top, finishing
2. a type of playing ball
3. (according to Hesychius) jackdaw, daw, grackle
4. (according to Hesychius) a type of sea-fish

Inflection

Synonyms

• (jackdaw): κολοιός ‎(koloiós)

References

• κολοφών in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κολοφών in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «κολοφών» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • consummation idem, page 166.
  • coping-stone idem, page 173.
  • crown idem, page 186.
  • finishing idem, page 322.
• LSJ 8th edition