κρέμβαλα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κρέμβαλον (krémbalon)
Etymology
The suffix -αλ- is found also in κρόταλον (krótalon), ῥόπαλον (rhópalon) and other loanwords. Connection with Latin crepō (“to rattle, creak”), Lithuanian skrebeti (“to rustle”) and Russian кропота́ть (kropotátʹ, “to grumble”) is impossible, as Greek "β" cannot be due to the proceeding nasal. This nasal rather points to a Pre-Greek word.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /krém.ba.la/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkrem.ba.la/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈkrem.ba.la/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈkrem.ba.la/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈkrem.ba.la/
Noun
κρέμβᾰλα • (krémbala) n pl (genitive κρεμβᾰ́λων); second declension
- castanets, clappers
- Synonym: κρόταλον (krótalon)
Declension
Second declension of τᾰ̀ κρέμβᾰλᾰ; τῶν κρεμβᾰ́λων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ κρέμβᾰλᾰ tà krémbala | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν κρεμβᾰ́λων tôn krembálōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς κρεμβᾰ́λοις toîs krembálois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ κρέμβᾰλᾰ tà krémbala | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κρέμβᾰλᾰ krémbala | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κρεμβαλιάζω (krembaliázō)
- κρεμβαλιαστύς (krembaliastús)
Further reading
- “κρέμβαλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κρέμβαλα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κρέμβαλα 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