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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to κίβδηλος (kíbdēlos, “fraudulent; fake, sham”), which see for the Semitic origin, through the idea of gold being adulterated by being made an alloy.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kíb.dos/ → /ˈciβ.ðos/ → /ˈciv.ðos/
Noun
κίβδος • (kíbdos) m (genitive κίβδου); second declension
- dross or alloy of gold
Inflection
Further reading
- “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίβδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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