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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic. Compare βόμβος (bómbos, “humming, buzzing”), κόναβος (kónabos, “din, clash”) and κόμβα (kómba, “shearwater”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kóm.pos/ → /ˈkom.pos/ → /ˈkom.bos/
Noun
κόμπος • (kómpos) m (genitive κόμπου); second declension
- din, clash, racket
- (figuratively) boast, vaunt, bragging
- praise (rarely in good sense)
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “κόμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κόμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “κόμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- κόμπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- κόμπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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
Greek
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κόμβος (kómbos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkom.bos/
- Hyphenation: κό‧μπος
Noun
κόμπος • (kómpos) m (plural κόμποι)
- knot, looping of a piece of string
Δένει κόμπο.- Dénei kómpo.
- He ties a knot.
- node of plant stem
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with nautical speed: κόμβος m (kómvos, “knot”).
Declension
Further reading