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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Origin unclear; the irregular suffix and phonetics suggest a Pre-Greek,[1][2] Ancient Macedonian,[3] or Semitic[4] loan. Also see Latin scarabaeus, carabus, Armenian քարբ (kʻarb); Arabic عَقْرَب (ʕaqrab) and قَارِب (qārib), likely from the same substrate source.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kǎː.ra.bos/ → /ˈka.ra.βos/ → /ˈka.ra.vos/
Noun
κᾱ́ρᾰβος • (kā́rabos) m (genitive κᾱρᾰ́βου); second declension
- a kind of beetle, probably a longhorn beetle
- a kind of crustacean, probably a crayfish
- a small boat
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “κᾱ́ρᾰβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 642
- ^ Robert S. P. Beekes, Greek etymological dictionary
- ^ Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language,
- ^ “Proto-Semitic root: *ʕaḳrab-; Number 2340” in Georgiy Starostin, Tower of Babel, Copyright 1998-2003 by S. Starostin.
Further reading
- “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