κάραβος

Ancient Greek

Origin unclear; the irregular suffix and phonetics suggest a Pre-Greek,^[1]^[2] Ancient Macedonian,^[3] or Semitic^[4] loan. Also see Latin scarabaeus, carabus, Armenian քարբ (kʻarb); Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab) and قَارِب (qārib), likely from the same substrate source.

κᾱ́ρᾰβος • (kā́rabos) m (genitive κᾱρᾰ́βου); second declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κᾱ́ρᾰβος ho kā́rabos	τὼ κᾱρᾰ́βω tṑ kārábō	οἱ κᾱ́ρᾰβοι hoi kā́raboi
Genitive	τοῦ κᾱρᾰ́βου toû kārábou	τοῖν κᾱρᾰ́βοιν toîn kāráboin	τῶν κᾱρᾰ́βων tôn kārábōn
Dative	τῷ κᾱρᾰ́βῳ tôi kārábōi	τοῖν κᾱρᾰ́βοιν toîn kāráboin	τοῖς κᾱρᾰ́βοις toîs kārábois
Accusative	τὸν κᾱ́ρᾰβον tòn kā́rabon	τὼ κᾱρᾰ́βω tṑ kārábō	τοὺς κᾱρᾰ́βους toùs kārábous
Vocative	κᾱ́ρᾰβε kā́rabe	κᾱρᾰ́βω kārábō	κᾱ́ρᾰβοι kā́raboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κᾱ́ρᾰβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 642
^ Robert S. P. Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary
^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
^ “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.

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