κυβάβδα

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, perhaps from Pre-Greek, due to the presence of the cluster -βδ.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ky.báb.da/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kyˈbab.da/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /kyˈβaβ.ða/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cyˈvav.ða/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈvav.ða/

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Noun

κυβάβδα • (kubábda)

Hesychius' gives the definition as: αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).

References

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

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