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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Explained as an Aeolic compound "καλα-ϝροψ" by Schwyzer and Chantraine, but with unexplained second member. The comparison of the first member with Sanskrit शल (śala, “spear, staff”) or with κλάω (kláō, “to break”) must be forgotten. According to Beekes, it is a typical Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.lâu̯.rops/ → /kaˈla.βrops/ → /kaˈla.vrops/
Noun
κᾰλαῦροψ • (kalaûrops) f (genitive κᾰλαύροπος); third declension
- shepherd's staff or crook, which was thrown so as to drive back the cattle
- Synonym: χαῖος (khaîos)
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Further reading
- “καλαῦροψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καλαῦροψ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “καλαῦροψ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- καλαῦροψ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- καλαῦροψ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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