ὄβρια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
For ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala), compare animal names and hypocoristic formations like ὀρτάλιχος (ortálikhos) and ὁσσίχος (hossíkhos). Furnée assumes Pre-Greek origin, with interchange ὀ/ἰ between ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala) and ἰβρίκαλοι (ibríkaloi, “young pigs”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ó.bri.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈo.bri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈo.βri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈo.vri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈo.vri.a/
Noun
ὄβρῐᾰ • (óbria) n pl (genitive ὀβρῐ́ων); second declension
- cubs of wild animals
Declension
Second declension of τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ; τῶν ὀβρῐ́ων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ tà óbria | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν ὀβρῐ́ων tôn obríōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς ὀβρῐ́οις toîs obríois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ tà óbria | ||||||||||||
Vocative | ὄβρῐᾰ óbria | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala)
References
- ὄβρια in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ὄβρια 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