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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λάβρος (lábros, “furious, fierce”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lá.braːks/ → /ˈla.βraks/ → /ˈla.vraks/
Noun
λάβραξ • (lábrax) m (genitive λάβρᾱκος); third declension
- European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)
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References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λάβρος (> DER Fish-names: λάβρᾱξ, -ᾱκος)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 818
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