- κόλλαβος
- κόλλαβοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: kind of `bread or cake' (Ar., Philyll.); also = κόλλοψ (Luc., Iamb., H.);Derivatives: κολλαβίζω "play κόλλαβος", i. e. one holds his eyes, while the other strikes him, and bids him guess with which hand he has been struck (Poll. 9, 129); motive of the name is dark.Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: Poplar word in -βος (Schwyzer 496, Chantraine Formation 261f.) and like so many words of the same formation without etymology. Would the word orig. mean `buffet'? See κόλλοψ. Cf. futher κόλλιξ and κολλύρα. The word is no doubt Pre-Greek. Cf. Nicole Guilleux, RPh. LXXV (2001) s.v.Page in Frisk: 1,899
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.