Φόρβας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φέρβω (phérbō, “feed, nourish”) + -ᾱς (-ās).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰór.baːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰor.bas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸor.βas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfor.vas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfor.vas/
Proper noun
Φόρβᾱς • (Phórbās) m (genitive Φόρβᾰντος); third declension
- Phorbas
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ Φόρβᾱς; τοῦ Φόρβᾰντος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Φόρβᾱς ho Phórbās | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Φόρβᾰντος toû Phórbantos | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Φόρβᾰντῐ tôi Phórbanti | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Φόρβᾰντᾰ tòn Phórbanta | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Φόρβᾰν Phórban | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: Φόρβας (Fórvas)
- Latin: Phorbās
Further reading
- “Φόρβας”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022
- Φόρβας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette