βολβός
Appearance
Ancient Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]An onomatopoeic term with syllable reduplication; similar words are found in other languages including Indo-European ones, such as Latin bulla (“water bubble”) and Latvian burbulis (“water bubble”). Note also Armenian բողկ (boġk, “radish”), Sanskrit बल्बज (balbaja, “Indian goosegrass”), and Albanian bajgë.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bol.bós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bolˈbos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βolˈβos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /volˈvos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /volˈvos/
Noun
[edit]βολβός • (bolbós) m (genitive βολβοῦ); second declension
- (botany) bulb of various plants, especially onion
- tassel hyacinth (Muscari comosum)
- Synonym: ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)
- (anatomy) eyeball
Inflection
[edit]Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βολβός ho bolbós |
τὼ βολβώ tṑ bolbṓ |
οἱ βολβοί hoi bolboí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βολβοῦ toû bolboû |
τοῖν βολβοῖν toîn bolboîn |
τῶν βολβῶν tôn bolbôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βολβῷ tôi bolbôi |
τοῖν βολβοῖν toîn bolboîn |
τοῖς βολβοῖς toîs bolboîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βολβόν tòn bolbón |
τὼ βολβώ tṑ bolbṓ |
τοὺς βολβούς toùs bolboús | ||||||||||
Vocative | βολβέ bolbé |
βολβώ bolbṓ |
βολβοί bolboí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
[edit]- βολβάριον (bolbárion)
- βολβίνη (bolbínē)
- βολβίον (bolbíon)
- βολβίσκος (bolbískos)
- βολβοειδής (bolboeidḗs)
- βολβοκάστανον (bolbokástanon)
- βολβοφακῆ (bolbophakê)
- βολβώδης (bolbṓdēs)
- βολβωρυχέω (bolbōrukhéō)
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “βολβός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 225
Further reading
[edit]- “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βολβός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βολβός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- βολβός, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós).
Noun
[edit]βολβός • (volvós) m (plural βολβοί)
Declension
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- Ancient Greek onomatopoeias
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Botany
- grc:Anatomy
- grc:Asparagus family plants
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'αδελφός'