λίβανος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from a Semitic language, from a word cognate to Hebrew לבונה (“frankincense”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lí.ba.nos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.ba.nos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.βa.nos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.va.nos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.va.nos/
Noun
λίβανος • (líbanos) m or f (genitive λίβανου); second declension
- frankincense
- (by extension) frankincense tree
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ, ἡ λίβανος ho, hē líbanos |
τὼ λιβάνω tṑ libánō |
οἱ, αἱ λίβανοι hoi, hai líbanoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ, τῆς λιβάνου toû, tês libánou |
τοῖν λιβάνοιν toîn libánoin |
τῶν λιβάνων tôn libánōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ, τῇ λιβάνῳ tôi, têi libánōi |
τοῖν λιβάνοιν toîn libánoin |
τοῖς, ταῖς λιβάνοις toîs, taîs libánois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν, τὴν λίβανον tòn, tḕn líbanon |
τὼ λιβάνω tṑ libánō |
τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λιβάνους toùs, tā̀s libánous | ||||||||||
Vocative | λίβανε líbane |
λιβάνω libánō |
λίβανοι líbanoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- λιβάνινος (libáninos)
Synonyms
- λιβανωτός (libanōtós)
Further reading
- “λίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λίβανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 860
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- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek nouns with multiple genders
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