κόμβος

The traditional comparisons with Lithuanian kabi̇̀nti (“to hang, hook on”), Proto-Slavic *skobà (“bracket”) and, within Greek, σκαμβός (skambós, “crooked”) are considered by Frisk and Beekes to be phonetically and semantically unsatisfactory. This, along with the β-π (b-p) variation demonstrated by the related form κομποθηλεία (kompothēleía, “buckle”), suggests Pre-Greek origin.^[1]

κόμβος • (kómbos) m (genitive κόμβου); second declension

1. roll, band, girth

• Greek: > κόμπος (kómpos) (inherited), → κόμβος (kómvos) (learned)

• “κόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόμβος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Koine Greek κόμβος (kómbos) with semantic loan from French nœud for 'hub' and 'node' and from English knot in the nautical sense.^[1] Doublet of κόμπος (kómpos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoɱ.vos/
• Hyphenation: κόμ‧βος

κόμβος • (kómvos) m (plural κόμβοι)

1. (traffic) interchange, hub, circus
2. (nautical) knot (speed of one nautical mile per hour)
3. node

• Not to be confused with looping of string: κόμπος m (kómpos, “knot”).