κλωβός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

  • κλουβός (kloubós)

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Semitic. Compare Hebrew כְּלוּב (kluv), Arabic كَلْبِشْ (kalbiš), and Old Armenian կողով (kołov).[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κλωβός • (klōbósm (genitive κλωβοῦ); second declension

  1. birdcage

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: κλωβός (klovós)

References

  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “κλωβός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 719

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