σκόλυβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Like σκόλυμος (skólumos, “kind of thistle”), from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /skó.ly.bos/ → /ˈsko.ly.βos/ → /ˈsko.li.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /skó.ly.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ly.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ly.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.ly.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsko.li.vos/

Noun

σκόλυβος • (skólubos)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: ἐσθιόμενος βολβός (esthiómenos bolbós, literally “edible tassel hyacinth”).

Further reading

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