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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate to Sanskrit तर्जति (tarjati, “to threaten, revile”), Latin torvus (“grim, fierce”) and Welsh tarfu (“to scare away”).
Furnée compares ταρμύσσω (tarmússō, “to frighten”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tár.bos/ → /ˈtar.βos/ → /ˈtar.vos/
Noun
τάρβος • (tárbos) n (genitive τάρβεος); third declension
- alarm, terror, fright
- awe, reverence
Inflection
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Further reading
- “τάρβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τάρβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τάρβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τάρβος 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