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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λείβω.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lé.bɛːs/ → /ˈle.βis/ → /ˈle.vis/
Noun
λέβης • (lébēs) m (genitive λέβητος); third declension
- kettle, cauldron
- Synonym: δευτήρ (deutḗr)
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Further reading
- “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέβης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέβης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λέβης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λέβης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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