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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a Mediterranean substrate borrowing, and likely related to ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, “chickpea”). Compare Proto-Germanic *arwīts, Latin ervum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ó.ro.bos/ → /ˈo.ro.βos/ → /ˈo.ro.vos/
Noun
ὄροβος • (órobos) m (genitive ὀρόβου); second declension
- bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia).
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References
- “ὄροβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄροβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- 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