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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Formally, it has been compared with κοττίς (kottís, “back of the head”), κόττειν (kóttein, “to hit, stamp”) and κόττος (kóttos, “cube”). The variation "ττ/σσ" points to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kót.ta.bos/ → /ˈkot.ta.βos/ → /ˈko.ta.vos/
Noun
κόττᾰβος • (kóttabos) m (genitive κοττάβου); second declension
- cottabus
Inflection
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Further reading
- “κότταβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κότταβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κότταβος 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