Λιβύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Homeric toponym (Odyssey IX.95, XXIII.311).

From Λῐ́βῠς (Líbus) +‎ -η (-ē), from the name of the Libu, a tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th century BC as rbw

and as 𐤋𐤁𐤉 (lby) in later Punic inscriptions.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.bý.ɛː/ → /liˈβy.i/ → /liˈvi.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.bý.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈby.e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈβy.i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈvy.i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈvi.i/

Proper noun

Λῐβῠ́η • (Libúē) f (genitive Λῐβῠ́ης); first declension

1. North Africa
2. Northwestern Africa

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Λῐβῠ́η; τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Λῐβῠ́η hē Libúē
Genitive	τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης tês Libúēs
Dative	τῇ Λῐβῠ́ῃ têi Libúēi
Accusative	τὴν Λῐβῠ́ην tḕn Libúēn
Vocative	Λῐβῠ́η Libúē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: Libië
• Albanian: Libia
• Alemannic German: Libyen
• Amharic: ሊቢያ (libiya)
• Arabic: ليبيا (Lībiyā)
• Aragonese: Libia
• Aramaic: ܠܘܒܐ
• Armenian: Լիբիա (Libia)
• Asturian: Libia
• Azerbaijani: Liviya
• Bambara: Libya
• Basque: Libia
• Belarusian: Лівія (Livija)
• Belarusian (Tarashkevitsa): Лібія (Libija)
• Bengali: লিবিয়া (libiẏa)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: লিবিয়া
• Breton: Libia
• Bulgarian: Либия (Libija)
• Catalan: Libia
• Cebuano: Libya
• Cornish: Libi
• Crimean Tatar: Libiya
• Czech: Libye
• Danish: Libyen
• Dutch: Libië
• English: Libya
• Esperanto: Libio
• Estonian: Liibüa
• Finnish: Libya
• Franco-Provençal: Libie
• French: Libye
• Galician: Libia
• Georgian: ლიბია (libia)
• German: Libyen
• Greek: Λιβύη (Livýi)
• Haitian Creole: Libi
• Hindi: लीबिया (lībiyā)
• Hungarian: Líbia
• Icelandic: Líbýa, Líbía
• Ido: Libia
• Ilocano: Libya
• Indonesian: Libya
• Irish: An Libia
• Italian: Libia
• Japanese: リビア (Ribia)
• Javanese: Libya
• Kabyle: Libya
• Kannada: ಲಿಬ್ಯಾ (libyā)
• Kapampangan: Libya
• Kazakh: Либия (Libiä)
• Korean: 리비아 (Ribia)
• Kurdish: Lîbya
• Latin: Libya
• Latvian: Lībija
• Ligurian: Libia
• Lingala: Libîya
• Lithuanian: Libija

• Lower Sorbian: Libyska
• Low German: Libyen
• Luxembourgish: Libyen
• Macedonian: Либија (Libija)
• Malayalam: ലിബിയ (libiya)
• Malay: Libya
• Mandarin: 利比亞／利比亚 (Lìbǐyà)
• Manx: Yn Leeb
• Marathi: लिबिया (libiyā)
• Neapolitan: Libbia
• Norwegian: Libya
• Occidental: Libya
• Occitan: Libia
• Old English: Libia
• Ossetian: Ливи (Livi)
• Pashto: ليبيا
• Persian: لیبی
• Piedmontese: Libia
• Polish: Libia
• Portuguese: Líbia
• Quechua: Libya
• Romanian: Libia
• Russian: Ливия (Livija)
• Sami: Libya
• Samogitian: Lėbėjė
• Sanskrit: लिबिया (libiyā)
• Scottish Gaelic: Libia
• Serbo-Croatian: Либија, Libija
• Sicilian: Libbia
• Slovak: Líbya
• Slovene: Libija
• Somali: Libya
• Spanish: Libia
• Swahili: Libya
• Swedish: Libyen
• Tagalog: Libya
• Tajik: Либия (Libiya)
• Tamil: லிபியா (lipiyā)
• Thai: ประเทศลิเบีย
• Tibetan: ལིའི་པི་ཡ (li'i pi ya)
• Tsonga: Libya
• Turkish: Libya
• Ukrainian: Лівія (Livija)
• Upper Sorbian: Libyska
• Urdu: لیبیا (lebyā)
• Uzbek: Liviya
• Venetian: Łibia
• Vietnamese: Libya
• Volapük: Lübän
• Welsh: Libya
• West Frisian: Lybje
• Wolof: Libi
• Yiddish: ליביע (Libye)
• Zazaki: Libya

References

• “Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Λιβύη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• 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
• G3033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015

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Greek

Proper noun

Λιβύη • (Livýi) f

1. Libya

Declension

  Λιβύη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Λιβύη •
genitive	Λιβύης •
accusative	Λιβύη •
vocative	Λιβύη •

Related terms

• Λίβυα f (Lívya, “Libyan”)
• Λίβυος m (Lívyos, “Libyan”)
• λιβυκός (livykós, “Libyan”, adjective)

Further reading

• Λιβύη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el