βάρβιτος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βάρβιτον (bárbiton)
- βάρμιτος (bármitos)
- βάρμος (bármos)
- βάρωμος (bárōmos)
Etymology
Uncertain, probably from Phrygian.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bár.bi.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβar.βi.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvar.vi.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvar.vi.tos/
Noun
βάρβῐτος • (bárbitos) m or f (genitive βαρβῐ́του); second declension
- (music) barbitos
Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ βάρβῐτος; τοῦ, τῆς βαρβῐ́του (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ βάρβῐτος ho, hē bárbitos | τὼ βαρβῐ́τω tṑ barbítō | οἱ, αἱ βάρβῐτοι hoi, hai bárbitoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς βαρβῐ́του toû, tês barbítou | τοῖν βαρβῐ́τοιν toîn barbítoin | τῶν βαρβῐ́των tôn barbítōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ βαρβῐ́τῳ tôi, têi barbítōi | τοῖν βαρβῐ́τοιν toîn barbítoin | τοῖς, ταῖς βαρβῐ́τοις toîs, taîs barbítois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν βάρβῐτον tòn, tḕn bárbiton | τὼ βαρβῐ́τω tṑ barbítō | τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς βαρβῐ́τους toùs, tā̀s barbítous | ||||||||||
Vocative | βάρβῐτε bárbite | βαρβῐ́τω barbítō | βάρβῐτοι bárbitoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: βάρβιτος (várvitos)
- → Classical Syriac: ܒܪܒܝܛܐ (barbīṭā)
- → Latin: barbitos
- → English: barbitos, barbiton
- → Middle Persian: [script needed] (blbwt' /barbut, barbat/, “barbat, lute”) (possibly)
- → Chinese: 琵琶 (pípá)
- Persian: بربت (barbat), بربط (barbat)
- Tajik: барбат (barbat)
- → Ottoman Turkish: بربط (berbatt)
- → Arabic: بربط (barbuṭ, barbaṭ, barbiṭ)
- → Georgian: ბარბითი (barbiti)
- → Middle Armenian: բարբուտ (barbut), բարբութ (barbutʿ)
References
- “βάρβιτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βάρβιτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βάρβιτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βάρβιτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- harp idem, page 386.
- lyre idem, page 506.
- حسندوست، محمد، «دربارهٔ چند لغتِ یونانیِ دخیل در زبان فارسی»، نامهٔ فرهنگستان (زمستان ۱۳۷۵): شمارهٔ ۸، صفحه ۹۷
- Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “بربت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press, page بربط
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 201