βαμβάκιον

From βάμβαξ (bámbax, “cotton”) +‎ -ιον (-ion, diminutive).

βαμβάκιον • (bambákion) n (genitive βαμβακίου); second declension

1. (Byzantine) cotton

• Greek: βαμβάκι (vamváki), μπαμπάκι (bampáki) — much less common
  • → Bulgarian: бу́бак (búbak), бъ́бек (bǎ́bek)
• → English: bambakion
• → Medieval Latin: bombacium, bambacium, bombecium, bambecium
  • French: bombasin
  • Italian: bambagia
    • →? Russian: бума́га (bumága)
  • Venetan: bonbaxo, bombàxo, bombàs
    • → Cimbrian: bombaas
    • → Slovene: bombaž

• βαμβάκιον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• βαμβάκιον in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• βαμβάκιον, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “βαμβάκιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Sophocles, Evangelinos Apostolides (1900) “βαμβάκιον”, in Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods (from B. C. 146 to A. D. 1100), New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 296