λιβανωτός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From a Semitic sound plural of the etymon of λίβανος (líbanos), which Beekes says derives from a Semitic root cognate to Hebrew לָבָן (“white”) and Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /li.ba.nɔː.tós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /li.ba.noˈtos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /li.βa.noˈtos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /li.va.noˈtos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /li.va.noˈtos/
Noun
λιβανωτός • (libanōtós) m (genitive λιβανωτοῦ); second declension
- frankincense
Declension
Second declension of ὁ λιβανωτός; τοῦ λιβανωτοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λιβανωτός ho libanōtós | τὼ λιβανωτώ tṑ libanōtṓ | οἱ λιβανωτοί hoi libanōtoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λιβανωτοῦ toû libanōtoû | τοῖν λιβανωτοῖν toîn libanōtoîn | τῶν λιβανωτῶν tôn libanōtôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λιβανωτῷ tôi libanōtôi | τοῖν λιβανωτοῖν toîn libanōtoîn | τοῖς λιβανωτοῖς toîs libanōtoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λιβανωτόν tòn libanōtón | τὼ λιβανωτώ tṑ libanōtṓ | τοὺς λιβανωτούς toùs libanōtoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | λιβανωτέ libanōté | λιβανωτώ libanōtṓ | λιβανωτοί libanōtoí | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- λίβανος (líbanos)
Further reading
- λιβανωτός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
References
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “λίβανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 860