βομβάξ

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

βόμβαξ (bómbax)
βομβαλοβομβάξ (bombalobombáx) (intensive)

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, from the same source as βόμβος (bómbos, “buzzing, humming”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bom.báks/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bomˈbaks/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βomˈbaks/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vomˈbaks/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vomˈbaks/

Interjection

βομβάξ • (bombáx)

buzz!
- 411 BCE, Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 45:
  [Μνησίλοχος]: βομβάξ.
  [Εὐριπίδης]: σίγα.
  [Mnēsílokhos]: bombáx.
  [Euripídēs]: síga.
  [Mnesilochus]: Buzz!
  [Euripides]: Shut up!

Further reading

“βομβάξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
βομβάξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
βομβάξ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
“βομβάξ”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011

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