1. κάναβος · kanabos — Beekes
The corpus record
κάνᾰβος
kanabos
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What it meant
2. κάναβος · kanabos — Frisk
3. κάνᾰβος · kanabos — LSJ
wooden framework round which artists moulded wax or clay, block-figure, Hsch., Poll. 7.164, 10.189.
mannikin or rough drawing of the human frame, Arist. HA 515a35, GA 743a2 (wrongly expld. as cistern by Phlp. in GA 109.27).
metaph., lean person, ‘skeleton’, Stratt. 20, Hsch. (Spelling and quantity undetermined: cf. κίναβος.)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.