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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from the same Pre-Greek root of κορυφή (koruphḗ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.rym.bos/ → /ˈko.rym.bos/ → /ˈko.rim.bos/
Noun
κόρυμβος • (kórumbos) m (genitive κορύμβου); second declension
- (nautical) uppermost point of a ship
- top of a mountain
- (botany) cluster of the ivy fruit
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Further reading
- “κόρυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόρυμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόρυμβος 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
Greek
Etymology
Learned borrowing from French corymbe, from Latin corymbus, from Ancient Greek κόρυμβος (kórumbos).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈko.ɾiɱ.vos/
Noun
κόρυμβος • (kórymvos) m (plural κόρυμβοι)
- (botany) cluster of flowers with a flat or convex top
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