κώδων

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin, based on the lack of a clear root and corresponding verb to which the word would trace back to, as well as similarities to words like κώδεια (kṓdeia, “poppyhead”), which suggest a substrate borrowing.^[1]

κώδων • (kṓdōn) m (genitive κώδωνος); third declension

1. bell

• κωδώνιον (kōdṓnion)

• → English: codon
• Greek: κώδων (kódon)

• “κώδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κώδων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κώδων in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κώδων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2026)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • alarm bell idem, page 21.
  • bell idem, page 72.
  • tocsin idem, page 880.
• κώδων, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κώδων (kṓdōn).

κώδων • (kódon) m (plural κώδωνες)

1. bell (Katharevousa form of κουδούνι (koudoúni))

• κωδώνιον n (kodónion)
• καμπάνα f (kampána)

• κωδωνοκρουσία f (kodonokrousía, “bell ringing”)
• κωδωνοκρούστης m (kodonokroústis, “bell ringer”)
• κωδωνοστάσιο n (kodonostásio, “bell tower, belfry”)
• καταδυτικός κώδων m (katadytikós kódon, “diving bell”)