κρόβαλος
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kró.ba.los/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkro.ba.los/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.βa.los/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkro.va.los/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkro.va.los/
Noun
[edit]κρόβαλος • (króbalos)
- Hesychius gives the definition as: ὁ μαλλός τῶν παιδίων (ho mallós tôn paidíōn, literally “the tress of a young child”), αἱ τρίχες τῶν αἰδοίων (hai tríkhes tôn aidoíōn, literally “the hairs of the pudenda”).
Further reading
[edit]- “κρόβαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Hesychius' Lexicon: κ