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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar̥.r̥a.bɔ̌ːn/ → /ar.raˈβon/ → /a.raˈvon/
Etymology 1
A loanword from Biblical Hebrew עירבון / עֵרָבוֹן (ʿērāḇōn, “guarantee, deposit”), or from a common third source, probably Semitic.[1]
Noun
ἀρρᾰβών • (arrhabṓn) m (genitive ἀρρᾰβῶνος); third declension
- earnest money, caution money
- (in general) earnest, pledge
- present, bribe
Declension
Descendants
Etymology 2
Unknown.[2]
Noun
ἀρραβών • (arrhabṓn)
- (hapax) fish hook (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
Usage notes
- Only attested as a hapax in Hesychius:
5th century CE,
Hesychius Alexandreus,
Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον Α:
- ἀῤῥαβών: πρόδομα. καὶ ἄγκιστρον
- arrhabṓn: pródoma. kaì ánkistron
- arrhabṓn: a prepayment; also fish hook
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀρραβών 1, -ῶνος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 139-40
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ἀρραβών 2”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 140
Further reading
- “ἀρραβών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀρραβών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀρραβών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀρραβών”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011