ἄσβεστος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, “not”) + σβεστός (sbestós), participle of σβέννυμι (sbénnumi, “I quench, quell”). The noun is shortened from ἄσβεστος τίτανος (títanos).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /áz.bes.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaz.bes.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaz.βes.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈaz.ves.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈaz.ves.tos/
Adjective
ἄσβεστος • (ásbestos) m (feminine ἀσβέστη, neuter ἄσβεστον); first/second declension
- unquenchable, inextinguishable
- endless, ceaseless
Inflection
First and second declension of ἄσβεστος; ἀσβέστη; ἄσβεστον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | ἄσβεστος ásbestos | ἀσβέστη asbéstē | ἄσβεστον ásbeston | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἀσβέστᾱ asbéstā | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἄσβεστοι ásbestoi | ἄσβεσται ásbestai | ἄσβεστᾰ ásbesta | |||||
Genitive | ἀσβέστου asbéstou | ἀσβέστης asbéstēs | ἀσβέστου asbéstou | ἀσβέστοιν asbéstoin | ἀσβέσταιν asbéstain | ἀσβέστοιν asbéstoin | ἀσβέστων asbéstōn | ἀσβέστων asbéstōn | ἀσβέστων asbéstōn | |||||
Dative | ἀσβέστῳ asbéstōi | ἀσβέστῃ asbéstēi | ἀσβέστῳ asbéstōi | ἀσβέστοιν asbéstoin | ἀσβέσταιν asbéstain | ἀσβέστοιν asbéstoin | ἀσβέστοις asbéstois | ἀσβέσταις asbéstais | ἀσβέστοις asbéstois | |||||
Accusative | ἄσβεστον ásbeston | ἀσβέστην asbéstēn | ἄσβεστον ásbeston | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἀσβέστᾱ asbéstā | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἀσβέστους asbéstous | ἀσβέστᾱς asbéstās | ἄσβεστᾰ ásbesta | |||||
Vocative | ἄσβεστε ásbeste | ἀσβέστη asbéstē | ἄσβεστον ásbeston | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἀσβέστᾱ asbéstā | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἄσβεστοι ásbestoi | ἄσβεσται ásbestai | ἄσβεστᾰ ásbesta | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
ἀσβέστως asbéstōs | ἀσβεστότερος asbestóteros | ἀσβεστότᾰτος asbestótatos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άσβεστος (ásvestos, “unquenchable”)
Noun
ἄσβεστος • (ásbestos) f (genitive ἄσβέστου); second declension
- unslaked lime, calcium oxide, quicklime
Declension
Second declension of ἡ ἄσβεστος; τῆς ἀσβέστου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἄσβεστος hē ásbestos | τὼ ἀσβέστω tṑ asbéstō | αἱ ἄσβεστοι hai ásbestoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἀσβέστου tês asbéstou | τοῖν ἀσβέστοιν toîn asbéstoin | τῶν ἀσβέστων tôn asbéstōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἀσβέστῳ têi asbéstōi | τοῖν ἀσβέστοιν toîn asbéstoin | ταῖς ἀσβέστοις taîs asbéstois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἄσβεστον tḕn ásbeston | τὼ ἀσβέστω tṑ asbéstō | τᾱ̀ς ἀσβέστους tā̀s asbéstous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἄσβεστε ásbeste | ἀσβέστω asbéstō | ἄσβεστοι ásbestoi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: άσβεστος f (ásvestos, “lime”)
- ⇒ Greek: ασβέστιον n (asvéstion, “lime”)
- Byzantine Greek: ασβέστιν n (asbéstin)
- Greek: ασβέστι n (asvésti), ασβέστης m (asvéstis, “lime”) (the second being a misinterpretation of the form ασβέστιν as masculine accusative ασβέστην)
- → Russian: и́звесть f (ízvestʹ, “lime”)
- → Greek: ασβέστιο n (asvéstio, “calcium”)
- Byzantine Greek: ασβέστιν n (asbéstin)
- → Latin: asbestos m
- Catalan: asbest
- Old French: abestos, abeston
- French: asbeste
- → Danish: asbest c
- → Dutch: asbest n
- → Estonian: asbest
- → German: Asbest
- → Russian: асбе́ст m (asbést)
- → Norwegian: asbest
- → Swedish: asbest c
- → Middle Dutch: asbeston
- → English: asbestos
- → Middle High German: aspindē, aspindei (“wood that neither rots nor burns”); bestēōn, bestīōn, abestō, abestōn (“amianthus”)
- French: asbeste
- Portuguese: asbesto
- Spanish: asbesto
- → Esperanto: asbesto
Further reading
- “ἄσβεστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄσβεστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἄσβεστος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄσβεστος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἄσβεστος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄσβεστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- “ἄσβεστος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G762 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible