Colchis

• Kolkhis

From Ancient Greek Κολχίς (Kolkhís).

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Colchis

2. (historical) A historical region and ancient Georgian kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus on the border between Europe and Asia, corresponding to what is now western Georgia (including Abkhazia), as well as parts of Russia and Turkey.

• Colchian
• Colchidian

• Iberia
• Egrisi
• Lazica

• cholics

Probably borrowed from Latin Colchis, from Ancient Greek Κολχῐ́ς (Kolkhĭ́s).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl.xɪs/
• Hyphenation: Col‧chis

Colchis n

1. (historical) Colchis (a historical region and ancient Georgian kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus on the border between Europe and Asia, corresponding to what is now western Georgia (including Abkhazia), as well as parts of Russia and Turkey)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κολχῐ́ς (Kolkhĭ́s).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔɫ.kʰɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkɔl.kis]

Colchis f sg (genitive Colchidis); third declension

1. (historical) Colchis (a historical region and ancient Georgian kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus on the border between Europe and Asia, corresponding to what is now western Georgia (including Abkhazia), as well as parts of Russia and Turkey)
2. a Colchian woman
   • c. 30 BCE, Horatius, Epodi 16.58

Third-declension noun (i-stem), singular only.

• “Colchis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Colchis”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Colchis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.