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Ancient Greek
Etymology
The word shares the suffix with κέλαδος (kélados), ἄραδος (árados), χρόμαδος (khrómados), φλοῖσβος (phloîsbos) and ὅμαδος (hómados). Since the word strongly recalls ῥοῖζος (rhoîzos, “rushing, whistling”) and ῥυβδέω (rhubdéō, “to slurp in”), the word is probably Pre-Greek. Moreover, the -βδ- is typical of substrate words.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r̥ôi̯b.dos/ → /ˈryβ.ðos/ → /ˈriv.ðos/
Noun
ῥοῖβδος • (rhoîbdos) m (genitive ῥοίβδου); second declension
- any rushing noise or motion
- whirring of wings
- rushing of the wind
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Further reading
- “ῥοῖβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ῥοῖβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ῥοῖβδος 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