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Ancient Greek
Etymology
See σάνδαλον (sándalon).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sám.ba.lon/ → /ˈsam.ba.lon/ → /ˈsam.ba.lon/
Noun
σάμβᾰλον • (sámbalon) n (genitive σαμβάλου); second declension
- Aeolic form of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”)
630 BCE – 570 BCE,
Sappho,
Collected Works 98:
- θυρώρῳ πόδες ἐπτορόγυιοι,
τὰ δὲ σάμβαλα πεμπεβόηα,
πίσσυγγοι δὲ δέκ' ἐξεπόναισαν.- thurṓrōi pódes eptoróguioi,
tà dè sámbala pempebóēa,
píssungoi dè dék' exepónaisan. - The porter's feet are seven fathoms long,
and his sandals are made of five ox-hides
- ten cobblers laboured on them.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “σάμβαλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- σάμβαλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “σάμβαλον”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
- “σάμβαλον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011