Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /kólymbos/

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

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

Noun

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

1. Alternative spelling of κολυμβίς ‎(kolumbís, “a diver, grebe”)
2. Alternative spelling of κολύμβησις ‎(kolúmbēsis, “pearl fishing”)
3. Alternative spelling of κολυμβήθρα ‎(kolumbḗthra, “place for swimming”)

Inflection

Descendants

• Latin: columba

References

• κόλυμβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόλυμβος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 379