κόναβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The ending recalls other sound words like ἄραβος (árabos), θόρυβος (thórubos) and ὄτοβος (ótobos). Furnée assumes a Pre-Greek origin, comparing καναχή (kanakhḗ, “clattering, rattling”), with the interchanges α/ο and χ/β.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.na.bos/ → /ˈko.na.βos/ → /ˈko.na.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kó.na.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈko.na.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.na.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈko.na.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.na.vos/

Noun

κόνᾰβος • (kónabos) m (genitive κονᾰ́βου); second declension

1. din, clash, ringing

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόνᾰβος; τοῦ κονᾰ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόνᾰβος ho kónabos	τὼ κονᾰ́βω tṑ konábō	οἱ κόνᾰβοι hoi kónaboi
Genitive	τοῦ κονᾰ́βου toû konábou	τοῖν κονᾰ́βοιν toîn konáboin	τῶν κονᾰ́βων tôn konábōn
Dative	τῷ κονᾰ́βῳ tôi konábōi	τοῖν κονᾰ́βοιν toîn konáboin	τοῖς κονᾰ́βοις toîs konábois
Accusative	τὸν κόνᾰβον tòn kónabon	τὼ κονᾰ́βω tṑ konábō	τοὺς κονᾰ́βους toùs konábous
Vocative	κόνᾰβε kónabe	κονᾰ́βω konábō	κόνᾰβοι kónaboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοναβέω (konabéō)
• κοναβηδόν (konabēdón)
• κοναβίζω (konabízō)

 

Further reading

• “κόναβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόναβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κόναβος 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