γράβιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a non-Indo-European substrate word meaning "beech, oak" and found also in Greek γάβρος (gávros, “hornbeam”), Russian граб (grab, “hornbeam”) and Ancient Greek κράββατος (krábbatos, “couch, mattress”). Furnée further compares γοβρίαι (gobríai, “torches”), which cannot be ignored.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡrá.bi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡra.bi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.βi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.vi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣra.vi.on/
Noun
γρᾰ́βῐον • (grábion) n (genitive γρᾰβῐ́ου); second declension
- torch, brand
- Synonyms: γρῡνός (grūnós), δαΐς (daḯs), ἐλένη (elénē), λαμπάς (lampás), πανός (panós), πυρσός (pursós)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ γρᾰ́βῐον; τοῦ γρᾰβῐ́ου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ γρᾰ́βῐον tò grábion | τὼ γρᾰβῐ́ω tṑ grabíō | τᾰ̀ γρᾰ́βῐᾰ tà grábia | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ γρᾰβῐ́ου toû grabíou | τοῖν γρᾰβῐ́οιν toîn grabíoin | τῶν γρᾰβῐ́ων tôn grabíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ γρᾰβῐ́ῳ tôi grabíōi | τοῖν γρᾰβῐ́οιν toîn grabíoin | τοῖς γρᾰβῐ́οις toîs grabíois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ γρᾰ́βῐον tò grábion | τὼ γρᾰβῐ́ω tṑ grabíō | τᾰ̀ γρᾰ́βῐᾰ tà grábia | ||||||||||
Vocative | γρᾰ́βῐον grábion | γρᾰβῐ́ω grabíō | γρᾰ́βῐᾰ grábia | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- γράβιον in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γράβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γράβιον 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