Colchis

• Kolkhis

From Ancient Greek Κολχίς (Kolkhís).

Colchis

2. (historical) An ancient region and kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea, corresponding to what is now western Georgia.

• Colchian
• Colchidian

• Iberia
• Egrisi
• Lazica

• cholics

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

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

Colchis n

1. Colchis

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κολχῐ́ς (Kolkhís).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.kʰis/, [ˈkɔɫ̪kʰɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkol.kis/, [ˈkɔlkis]

Colchis f sg (genitive Colchidis); third declension

1. Colchis

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.