ἰβηρίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Ἰβηρία (Ibēría, “Iberia”) +‎ -ίς (-ís), after its native environment. Alessio thinks the name is Aegean and compares the word with ἰβίσκος (ibískos, “ibiscus”) and ἰβάνη (ibánē, “water-bucket”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.bɛː.rís/ → /i.βiˈris/ → /i.viˈris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.bɛː.rís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /i.be̝ˈris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /i.βiˈris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /i.viˈris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /i.viˈris/

Noun

ἰβηρῐ́ς • (ibērís) f (genitive ἰβηρῐ́δος); third declension

1. pepperwort (Lepidium graminifolium)

Declension

Third declension of ἡ ἰβηρῐ́ς; τῆς ἰβηρῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἰβηρῐ́ς hē ibērís	τὼ ἰβηρῐ́δε tṑ ibēríde	αἱ ἰβηρῐ́δες hai ibērídes
Genitive	τῆς ἰβηρῐ́δος tês ibērídos	τοῖν ἰβηρῐ́δοιν toîn ibērídoin	τῶν ἰβηρῐ́δων tôn ibērídōn
Dative	τῇ ἰβηρῐ́δῐ têi ibērídi	τοῖν ἰβηρῐ́δοιν toîn ibērídoin	ταῖς ἰβηρῐ́σῐ / ἰβηρῐ́σῐν taîs ibērísi(n)
Accusative	τὴν ἰβηρῐ́δᾰ tḕn ibērída	τὼ ἰβηρῐ́δε tṑ ibēríde	τᾱ̀ς ἰβηρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s ibērídas
Vocative	ἰβηρῐ́ς ibērís	ἰβηρῐ́δε ibēríde	ἰβηρῐ́δες ibērídes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Descendants

• → Latin: ibēris
  • → Translingual: Iberis

Further reading

• “ἰβηρίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰβηρίς 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