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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Of unclear origin. Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *urb-, with cognates such as Lithuanian virbas, Old Church Slavonic врьба (vrĭba) (Russian верба (verba)) and Latin verbēnae. Beekes argues for a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥áb.dos/ → /ˈraβ.ðos/ → /ˈrav.ðos/
Noun
ῥᾰ́βδος • (rhábdos) f (genitive ῥᾰ́βδου); second declension
- rod, wand, stick
- magic wand, scepter
- shaft of a spear
- stripe, strip, streak
- (grammar) line, verse
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Further reading
- “ῥάβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥάβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ῥάβδος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ῥάβδος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ῥάβδος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ῥάβδος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4464 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cane idem, page 110.
- cudgel idem, page 188.
- ferule idem, page 316.
- fishing-rod idem, page 323.
- rod idem, page 720.
- shaft idem, page 760.
- staff idem, page 808.
- stick idem, page 816.
- switch idem, page 849.
- truncheon idem, page 898.
- walking stick idem, page 960.
- wand idem, page 961.