σίλλυβον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
The origin is unclear. The formation resembles σκόλυμος (skólumos), ὄροβος (órobos), κόρυμβος (kórumbos) and ὄχθοιβος (ókhthoibos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /síl.ly.bon/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsil.ly.bon/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsil.ly.βon/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsil.ly.von/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.li.von/
Noun
σίλλῠβον • (síllubon) n (genitive σιλλύβου); second declension
- milk thistle (Silybum marianum)
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ σίλλῠβον; τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllubon | τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillúbō | τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tà sílluba | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου toû sillúbou | τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillúboin | τῶν σιλλῠ́βων tôn sillúbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ σιλλῠ́βῳ tôi sillúbōi | τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillúboin | τοῖς σιλλῠ́βοις toîs sillúbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllubon | τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillúbō | τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tà sílluba | ||||||||||
Vocative | σίλλῠβον síllubon | σιλλῠ́βω sillúbō | σίλλῠβᾰ sílluba | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- σίλλυβα (sílluba)
- σίλλυβος (síllubos)
Descendants
- Latin: sillybus
- Translingual: Silybum
Further reading
- “σίλλυβον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- σίλλυβον 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