κάραβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Origin unclear; the irregular suffix and phonetics suggest a Pre-Greek, Ancient Macedonian, or Semitic loan. Also see Latin scarabaeus, carabus, Armenian քարբ (kʿarb); Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab) and قَارِب (qārib).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kǎː.ra.bos/ → /ˈka.ra.βos/ → /ˈka.ra.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kǎː.ra.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.ra.vos/

Noun

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

1. a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle
2. a kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish
3. a small boat

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κᾱ́ρᾰβος; τοῦ κᾱρᾰ́βου (Attic)

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.

Derived terms

• καράβιον (karábion)

References

• “κάραβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κάραβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κάραβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κάραβος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften