λατραβός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

 

• IPA^(key): /la.tra.bós/ → /la.traˈβos/ → /la.traˈvos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /la.tra.bós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /la.traˈbos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /la.traˈβos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /la.traˈvos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /la.traˈvos/

Adjective

λατραβός • (latrabós)

1. Hesychius' gives the definition as: λαμυρός (lamurós, “full of abysses; gluttonous”).

Derived terms

• λατραβία (latrabía)
• λατραβίζειν (latrabízein)
• λατραβῶν (latrabôn)

 

Further reading

• “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