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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formation with -ῖδ- like κηκίς (kēkís), κνημίς (knēmís) and κρηπίς (krēpís). According to Beekes, this word is a technical term borrowed from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bal.bís/ → /βalˈβis/ → /valˈvis/
Noun
βᾰλβῐ́ς • (bălbĭ́s) f (genitive βᾰλβῖδος); third declension
- rope drawn across the racecourse at the starting and finishing point
- (in the plural) posts to which this rope was attached
- turning post in a racecourse
- Synonyms: καμπή (kampḗ), καμπτήρ (kamptḗr), νύσσα (nússa)
- platform from which the quoit was thrown
Inflection
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Further reading
- “βαλβίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βαλβίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βαλβίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βαλβίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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