στρόμβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the same Pre-Greek root of στρεβλός (streblós, “twisted, turned”), with a nasal infix.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /stróm.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈstrom.bos/
Noun
στρόμβος • (strómbos) m (genitive στρόμβου); second declension
- any body rounded or spun round
- spinning top
- whirlwind, vortex
- Synonym: στροφάλιγξ (strophálinx)
- trumpet shell, sea snail
- Synonym: κῆρυξ (kêrux)
- shell used as a trumpet, conch
- land snail
- spindle
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ στρόμβος ho strómbos |
τὼ στρόμβω tṑ strómbō |
οἱ στρόμβοι hoi strómboi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ στρόμβου toû strómbou |
τοῖν στρόμβοιν toîn strómboin |
τῶν στρόμβων tôn strómbōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ στρόμβῳ tôi strómbōi |
τοῖν στρόμβοιν toîn strómboin |
τοῖς στρόμβοις toîs strómbois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν στρόμβον tòn strómbon |
τὼ στρόμβω tṑ strómbō |
τοὺς στρόμβους toùs strómbous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | στρόμβε strómbe |
στρόμβω strómbō |
στρόμβοι strómboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- στρομβεῖον (strombeîon)
- στρομβηδόν (strombēdón)
- Στρόμβιχος (Strómbikhos)
- στρομβοειδής (stromboeidḗs)
- στρομβόω (strombóō)
- στρομβώδης (strombṓdēs)
Further reading
- “στρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “στρόμβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “στρόμβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- στρόμβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- στρόμβος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- 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
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