βολβός

The form of the word is expressive, with a kind of reduplication. There are no direct relatives and it is reminiscent of words for round and globular objects, like Latin bulla (“water bubble”) and Latvian burbulis (“water bubble”). Further, similar to Armenian բողկ (boġk, “radish”), Sanskrit बल्बज (balbaja, “Indian goosegrass”), and Albanian bajgë.

βολβός • (bolbós) m (genitive βολβοῦ); second declension

1. (botany) bulb of various plants, especially onion
2. tassel hyacinth (Muscari comosum)

   Synonym: ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)

3. (anatomy) eyeball

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• → Latin: bulbus (see there for further descendants)

• “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βολβός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βολβός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

βολβός • (volvós) m (plural βολβοί)

1. bulb (daffodil, crocus, etc)
2. bulb (swollen root of these plants)