ὄλβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée connects ὄλπα (ólpa, “kind of food”); if the gloss is cognate, it must be Pre-Greek, which is certainly a good possibility.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ól.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈol.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈol.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈol.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈol.vos/
Noun
ὄλβος • (ólbos) m (genitive ὄλβου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ὄλβος ho ólbos |
τὼ ὄλβω tṑ ólbō |
οἱ ὄλβοι hoi ólboi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ὄλβου toû ólbou |
τοῖν ὄλβοιν toîn ólboin |
τῶν ὄλβων tôn ólbōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ὄλβῳ tôi ólbōi |
τοῖν ὄλβοιν toîn ólboin |
τοῖς ὄλβοις toîs ólbois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν ὄλβον tòn ólbon |
τὼ ὄλβω tṑ ólbō |
τοὺς ὄλβους toùs ólbous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ὄλβε ólbe |
ὄλβω ólbō |
ὄλβοι ólboi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Greek: όλβος (ólvos)
Further reading
- “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄλβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄλβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blessedness idem, page 83.
- bliss idem, page 83.
- fortune idem, page 340.
- happiness idem, page 384.
- joy idem, page 464.
- luck idem, page 503.
- prosperity idem, page 653.
- ὄλβος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.
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