{
    "meta": {
        "serviceProvider": {
            "name": "Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanties, TELOTA - IT\/DH",
            "link": "https:\/\/www.bbaw.de\/en\/bbaw-digital\/telota"
        },
        "dataProvider": {
            "name": "Classical Language Dictionary",
            "link": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de"
        }
    },
    "query": {
        "self": "https:\/\/cld.bbaw.de\/api\/dictionary\/lemma\/%CE%BA%CE%BF%CC%81%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82?language=grc&options=case-sensitive",
        "searchDate": "2026-05-10 16:17:20",
        "searchFor": "lemma",
        "searchTerm": "κόβαλος",
        "language": "GRC",
        "options": {
            "strict": true,
            "case-sensitive": true,
            "regex": false,
            "simplified": false
        }
    },
    "data": [
        {
            "lemma": "κόβαλος",
            "meanings": 1,
            "language": "grc",
            "descriptions": [
                {
                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
                    "source": "https:\/\/bailly.app\/%C3%A0-propos",
                    "description": "<b>ος, ον<\/b> <font color='purple'>[ᾱ]<\/font><br\/><b>   I<\/b> <i>adj. :<\/i><br\/><b>      1<\/b> fourbe, trompeur, AR. <i>Eq. 450, etc. ;<\/i> τὰ κόϐαλα, AR. <i>Ran. 104,<\/i> niaiseries ;<br\/><b>      2<\/b> mauvais plaisant, moqueur, ARSTT. <i>H.A. 8, 12, 12 ;<\/i><br\/><b>   II<\/b> ὁ κ. lutin <i>ou<\/i> génie malfaisant, qui joue de vilains tours, AR. <i>Eq. 635<\/i>.<p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. <i>cf. lat<\/i>. cavilla.<\/p>"
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "LSJ",
                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
                    "source": null,
                    "description": "ὁ, <b>impudent rogue, arrant knave<\/b>, Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 450, <i>Ra.<\/i> 1015, Pl. 279, D.C. 53.3; of Midias, Phryn.Com. 4; in pl., <b>mischievous goblins<\/b>, invoked by rogues, Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 635; of the owl, κ. καὶ μιμητής Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 597b23. <i>Adj.<\/i> κόβαλα, τά, <b>knavish tricks, rogueries<\/b>, Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 417, <i>Ra.<\/i> 104; ὕβριστον ἔργον καὶ κ. Pherecr. 162. (For the orig. sense cf. κοβαλεύω.)"
                },
                {
                    "dictionary": "Pape",
                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
                    "source": null,
                    "description": "[ᾱ], ὁ, <i>Kobold, Possenreißer u. Schmarotzer, Gauner, der Anderen betrügerisch seines eigenen Vorteils wegen schmeichelt<\/i> ; <font color='blue'>neben ἀγοραῖοι u. πανοῦργοι<\/font> Ar. <i>Ran<\/i>. 1015, vgl. <i>Eq<\/i>. 450 ; καὶ μόθων <i>Plut<\/i>. 279, wo die Schol. wie Harp. bemerken, daß eigtl. δαίμονές τινες σκληροὶ περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον so heißen, satyrähnliche Gesellen des Bacchus, die ihn durch ihre Späße belustigten ; vgl. <font color='green'>Lobeck<\/font> <i>Aglaoph<\/i>. p. 1313.<br\/>Bei Arist. <i>H.A<\/i>. 8.12 von einem Vogel ἔστι δὲ κόβαλος καὶ μιμητής. – Adj., <i>possenhaft u. gaunerisch, spitzbübisch<\/i> ; κόβαλά γ' ἐστίν, ὡς καὶ σοὶ δοκεῖ Ar. <i>Ran<\/i>. 104, Schol. ἀπατητικά, πανοῦργα, vgl. <i>Eq<\/i>. 415."
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}