θρόμβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Compared with Icelandic drambr (“knag, knot”), however a direct connection is impossible. The same holds with Lithuanian dramblys (“elephant”) and Latvian dramblis (“glutton”). Can also be compared with Albanian grumbull (“heap, pile”). Within Greek, the word is generally compared with τρέφω (tréphō, “to curdle”): since this verb does not have a convincing Indo-European etymology, the present word would be of Pre-Greek origin too.

Pronunciation

Noun

θρόμβος • (thrómbos) m (genitive θρόμβου); second declension

1. piece, lump, clump
2. clot, gout of blood
3. curd of milk
4. coarse salt

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: θρόμβος (thrómvos)
• → New Latin: thrombus

Further reading

• “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “θρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• θρόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2361 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • cake idem, page 108.
  • clot idem, page 139.
  • gout idem, page 367.
  • lump idem, page 504.
• 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

Greek

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θρόμβος (thrómbos).

Noun

θρόμβος • (thrómvos) m (plural θρόμβοι)

1. blood clot, thrombus

Declension

Related terms

• θρόμβωση f (thrómvosi, “thrombosis”)