ἑλλέβορος
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Ancient Greek[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Traditionally taken as "eaten by deers", from ἐλλός (ellós, “deer”) + βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”). However, this seems very doubtful; the word could well be of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hel.lé.bo.ros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)ɛlˈlɛ.bo.ros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /elˈle.βo.ros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /elˈle.vo.ros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /eˈle.vo.ros/
Noun[edit]
ἑλλέβορος • (helléboros) m (genitive ἑλλεβόρου); second declension
- hellebore (plant of the genus Helleborus)
Inflection[edit]
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἑλλέβορος ho helléboros |
τὼ ἑλλεβόρω tṑ hellebórō |
οἱ ἑλλέβοροι hoi helléboroi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἑλλεβόρου toû hellebórou |
τοῖν ἑλλεβόροιν toîn hellebóroin |
τῶν ἑλλεβόρων tôn hellebórōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἑλλεβόρῳ tôi hellebórōi |
ἑλλεβόροιν hellebóroin |
τοῖς ἑλλεβόροις toîs hellebórois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἑλλέβορον tòn helléboron |
ἑλλεβόρω hellebórō |
τοὺς ἑλλεβόρους toùs hellebórous | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἑλλέβορε hellébore |
ἑλλεβόρω hellebórō |
ἑλλέβοροι helléboroi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
- ἑλλεβοριάω (helleboriáō)
- ἑλλεβορίζω (helleborízō)
- ἑλλεβορίνη (helleborínē)
- ἑλλεβορισμός (helleborismós)
- ἑλλεβορίτης (helleborítēs)
- ἑλλεβοροδότης (helleborodótēs)
- ἑλλεβοροποσίη (helleboroposíē)
- ἑλλεβοροσήματα (helleborosḗmata)
- ἑλλεβοροστρώννυμι (helleborostrṓnnumi)
Descendants[edit]
- Greek: ελλέβορος (ellévoros)
- → Latin: helleborus
- → Translingual: Helleborus
Further reading[edit]
- ἑλλέβορος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἑλλέβορος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἑλλέβορος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἑλλέβορος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2021)
- 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
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