- κάβαισος
- κάβαισοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `gluttonous fellow' (Kratin. 103), also PN (IG 5 : 2, 271, 9; Mantinea IVa).Other forms: \/ κάβασος? Hardly to καμασός or καμασήνOrigin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: - Acc. to the ancients from κάβος and αἶσα, which is of course nonsense. For the ending cf. Άγόραισος (GDI 3269, 12; 3386, 36; Schulze Kl. Schr. 665). Fur. 214 points to the v.l. κάβασος in Poll. 6, 43, which would give *kamasy-. He further connects καμασός βάραθρον, which is possible but of course uncertain; the comparison with καμασήν `fish' is even more uncertain. So perh. Pre-Greek, to which the whole structure of the word points. The meaning also points to a word of low standing.Page in Frisk: 1,749
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.