- κύαθος
- κύαθοςGrammatical information: m.Meaning: `ladle for drawing wine' (IA.).Derivatives: Diminut. κυάθ-ιον (Pherecr.), -ίς (Sophr.), -ίσκος (medic.); κυαθ-ώδης `k.-like' (Eratosth.), -ιαῖος `measuring a κ.' (Arist. -comm.), -ότης `the idea κύαθος' (Pl.; cf. Scheller Oxytonierung 29 n. 3), -ίζω `scoop with a κ.' (com., Plb.).Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]Etymology: For the ending cf. λήκυθος, γυργαθός a. o. (Chantraine Formation 367, Schwyzer 511); usu. connected with κύαρ (against this Chantraine l.c., but accepted again in DELG); cf. on κύαμος. Wrong Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73, 529 (Skt. kávandha-'barrel)'. Lat. LW [loanword] cyathus (Plaut.). - Szemerényi, Gnomon 43 (1971) compares Ugar. qb`t , Hebr. qubba`at `cup'. Clearly a Pre-Greek word (cf. DELG); Fur. 237 compares κόβαθος `a vessel', and κύβεθρον `beehive'(?). The sequence -υα- is typcical of `foreign' words.Page in Frisk: 2,36
Greek-English etymological dictionary (Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά ετυμολογική λεξικό). Robert S.P.. 2010.