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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the word is probably of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kó.baː.los/ → /ˈko.βa.los/ → /ˈko.va.los/
Noun
κόβᾱλος • (kóbālos) m (genitive κοβᾱ́λου); second declension
- impudent rogue, arrogant knave
- (in the plural) mischievous goblins invoked by rogues
Inflection
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Further reading
- “κόβαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόβαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κόβαλος 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