1. κᾶραβος · karabos — Beekes
The corpus record
κάρᾰβ-ος
karabos
a prickly crustacean
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Where it lives
- De Respiratione 2 · 3.29/10k
What it meant
2. κἄραβος · karabos — Chantraine
3. κἄραβος · karabos — Frisk
4. κάρᾰβ-ος · karab-os — LSJ
horned or cerambycid beetle, Arist. HA 531b25, 551b17 (with vv.ll. καράβιοι, καράμβιοι).
a prickly crustacean, crayfish, Epich. 57, Ar. Fr. 318.7, Gal. 12.313, etc.: disted. from καρκίνος, Arist. PA 684a1, cf. HA 525b32, 590b20; μαλακόστρακος ib. 490b11, cf. Specus. ap. Ath. 3.105b; an Eastern species, Nearch. ap. Arr. Ind. 29.14.
a light ship, EM 490.31.
Maced., gate, Hsch.
In the wild
- καράβους · karabous Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 116)
- κάραβοι · karaboi Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 118)
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.