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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The ending is reminiscent of θόρυβος (thórubos), κόναβος (kónabos) and ῥοῖβδος (rhoîbdos). Further analysis is unknown. Relation with φλιδάω (phlidáō, “to overflow with moisture”) is semantically not quite obvious.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰlôi̯z.bos/ → /ˈɸlyz.βos/ → /ˈfliz.vos/
Noun
φλοῖσβος • (phloîsbos) m (genitive φλοίσβου); second declension
- any confused roaring noise, especially of waves and battle
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Further reading
- “φλοῖσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φλοῖσβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φλοῖσβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φλοῖσβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φλοῖσβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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