κρόβαλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kró.ba.los/ → /ˈkro.βa.los/ → /ˈkro.va.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kró.ba.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.ba.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.βa.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.va.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈkro.va.los/

Noun

κρόβαλος • (króbalos)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: ὁ μαλλός τῶν παιδίων (ho mallós tôn paidíōn, literally “the tress of a young child”), αἱ τρίχες τῶν αἰδοίων (hai tríkhes tôn aidoíōn, literally “the hairs of the pudenda”).

Further reading

• “κρόβαλος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 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
• Hesychius' Lexicon: κ