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Ancient Greek
Etymology
A technical loan of unknown origin. Walde suggested a connection with Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (“loaf”), while Lewy proposed a Semitic origin; both proposals are unconvincing. Furnée lists the words among examples of the interchange of "ρ" and "λ" in Pre-Greek words, which is more probable.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /krǐː.ba.nos/ → /ˈkri.βa.nos/ → /ˈkri.va.nos/
Noun
κρῑ́βᾰνος • (krī́banos) m (genitive κρῑβᾰ́νου); second declension
- covered earthen vessel, wherein bread was baked by putting hot embers round it
- funnel-shaped vessel, used for drawing water
- underground channel or vaulted passage, in irrigation works
- hollow, cavern in a rock
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Further reading
- “κρίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρίβανος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “κρίβανος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011