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|Definition=ὁ, a ship's <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[cock-boat]], <span class="bibl">D.32.6</span>: metaph., of a [[parasite]], ὄπισθεν ἀκολουθεῖ κόλαξ τῳ; λέμβος ἐπικέκληται <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.34.7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[fishingboat]], <span class="bibl">Theoc.21.12</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">fast-sailing galley, felucca</b>, used either to precede a fleet, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.53.9</span>; or as a light transport, <span class="bibl">Id.2.3.1</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">5.109.3</span>, <span class="title">SIG</span>569.19 (Halasarna, iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PPetr.</span>2p.64</span> (iii B.C.).</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: m. (on the gender cf. Schwyzer-Debrunner 34 n. 2)<br />Meaning: <b class="b2">small fast-sailing galley </b> (D., Anaxandr., hell.); .<br />Derivatives: <b class="b3">λεμβῶδες πλοῖον</b> (Arist.)<br />Origin: LW [a loanword which is (probably) not of Pre-Greek origin] Illyr.<br />Etymology: Foreign word (cf. Chantraine Étrennes Benveniste 3), perh. Illyrian (s. lit. in W.-Hofmann s. [[lembus]]). Thus Krahe Gymnasium 59, 79, from IE <b class="b2">*lengʷho-s</b> (to [[ἐλαφρός]] etc.?). - Old IE etymologies in Bq and WP. 2, 435 rejected. Lat. LW [loanword] [[lembus]].