βράβυλον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- βάρβιλος (bárbilos), βράβιλον (brábilon), βράβυλος (brábulos)
Etymology
Unknown, but maybe a loanword from Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /brá.by.lon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈbra.by.lon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈβra.βy.lon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈvra.vy.lon/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈvra.vi.lon/
Noun
βράβυλον • (brábulon) n (genitive βραβύλου); second declension
- sloe (Prunus spinosa)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ βράβυλον; τοῦ βραβύλου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ βράβυλον tò brábulon | τὼ βραβύλω tṑ brabúlō | τᾰ̀ βράβυλᾰ tà brábula | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βραβύλου toû brabúlou | τοῖν βραβύλοιν toîn brabúloin | τῶν βραβύλων tôn brabúlōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βραβύλῳ tôi brabúlōi | τοῖν βραβύλοιν toîn brabúloin | τοῖς βραβύλοις toîs brabúlois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ βράβυλον tò brábulon | τὼ βραβύλω tṑ brabúlō | τᾰ̀ βράβυλᾰ tà brábula | ||||||||||
Vocative | βράβυλον brábulon | βραβύλω brabúlō | βράβυλᾰ brábula | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- βράβυλον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βράβυλον in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βράβυλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βράβυλον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2019)
- 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