κόμπος

Probably onomatopoeic. Compare βόμβος (bómbos, “humming, buzzing”), κόναβος (kónabos, “din, clash”) and κόμβα (kómba, “shearwater”).

κόμπος • (kómpos) m (genitive κόμπου); second declension

1. din, clash, racket
2. (figuratively) boast, vaunt, bragging
3. praise (rarely in good sense)

• “κόμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κόμπος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κόμπος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κόμπος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κόμπος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Inherited from Ancient Greek κόμβος (kómbos). Doublet of κόμβος (kómvos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkom.bos/
• Hyphenation: κό‧μπος

κόμπος • (kómpos) m (plural κόμποι)

1. knot, looping of a piece of string

   Δένει κόμπο.

   Dénei kómpo.

   He ties a knot.

2. node of plant stem

• Not to be confused with nautical speed: κόμβος m (kómvos, “knot”).

• έφτασε ο κόμπος στο χτένι (éftase o kómpos sto chténi, “reached crucial point: of a problem, of patience, tolerance”)
• το δένω κόμπο (to déno kómpo, “I assume it is a sure thing”)

• κόμπος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el