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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, probably a loan from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares Akkadian 𒆪𒇥 (kuppū, “kind of fish”), suggesting a Semitic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔː.bi.ós/ → /ko.βiˈos/ → /ko.viˈos/
Noun
κωβῐός • (kōbiós) m (genitive κωβῐοῦ); second declension
- sort of fish of the gudgeon kind
Inflection
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Further reading
- “κωβιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωβιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κωβιός 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