ἑλλέβορος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐλλέβορος (elléboros) – Ionic

Etymology

Traditionally taken as "eaten by deer", from ἐλλός (ellós, “deer”) +‎ βιβρώσκω (bibrṓskō, “to eat”). However, Beekes finds this seems very doubtful, preferring a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hel.lé.bo.ros/ → /elˈle.βo.ros/ → /eˈle.vo.ros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hel.lé.bo.ros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /(h)ɛlˈlɛ.bo.ros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /elˈle.βo.ros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /elˈle.vo.ros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /eˈle.vo.ros/

Noun

ἑλλέβορος • (helléboros) m (genitive ἑλλεβόρου); second declension

1. hellebore (plant of the genus Helleborus)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἑλλέβορος; τοῦ ἑλλεβόρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
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	τοῖν ἑλλεβόροιν toîn hellebóroin	τοῖς ἑλλεβόροις toîs hellebórois
Accusative	τὸν ἑλλέβορον tòn helléboron	τὼ ἑλλεβόρω tṑ hellebórō	τοὺς ἑλλεβόρους toùs hellebórous
Vocative	ἑλλέβορε hellébore	ἑλλεβόρω hellebórō	ἑλλέβοροι helléboroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἑλλεβοριάω (helleboriáō)
• ἑλλεβορίζω (helleborízō)
• ἑλλεβορίνη (helleborínē)
• ἑλλεβορισμός (helleborismós)
• ἑλλεβορίτης (helleborítēs)
• ἑλλεβοροδότης (helleborodótēs)
• ἑλλεβοροποσίη (helleboroposíē)
• ἑλλεβοροσήματα (helleborosḗmata)
• ἑλλεβοροστρώννυμι (helleborostrṓnnumi)

 

Descendants

• Greek: ελλέβορος (ellévoros)
• → Latin: helleborus
• → Translingual: Helleborus

Further reading

• “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 (2006–2022)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἐλλέβορος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413