λατραβός
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Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek, in view of the suffix -βος, which is found also in μάτταβος (máttabos, “stupid, silly”), ἀττέλαβος (attélabos, “locust”) and κόλλαβος (kóllabos, “kind of cake or roll”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /la.tra.bós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /la.traˈbos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /la.traˈβos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /la.traˈvos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /la.traˈvos/
Adjective
[edit]λατραβός • (latrabós)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: λαμυρός (lamurós, “full of abysses; gluttonous”).
Derived terms
[edit]- λατραβία (latrabía)
- λατραβίζειν (latrabízein)
- λατραβῶν (latrabôn)
Further reading
[edit]- “λατραβός”, 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: λ