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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Commonly derived from Proto-Indo-European *sloHgʷ-eh₂- (“to mishandle, press”), with Balto-Slavic cognates including Latvian slēgt (“to shut”), Lithuanian sluogas, slogus. Also compare λάζομαι (lázomai, “I grasp, seize”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ̌ː.bɛː/ → /ˈlo.βi/ → /ˈlo.vi/
Noun
λώβη • (lṓbē) f (genitive λώβης); first declension
- disgrace, dishonor
Declension
References
Further reading
- “λώβη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λώβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λώβη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λώβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- bullying idem, page 103.
- defacement idem, page 203.
- despiteful idem, page 217.
- disfigurement idem, page 233.
- dishonour idem, page 234.
- humiliation idem, page 410.
- indignity idem, page 433.
- injury idem, page 441.
- maiming idem, page 508.
- maltreatment idem, page 510.
- mutilation idem, page 548.
- outrage idem, page 582.