ὄροβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a Mediterranean substrate borrowing. Compare Proto-Germanic *arwīts, Latin ervum.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.ro.bos/ → /ˈo.ro.βos/ → /ˈo.ro.vos/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.ro.bos/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.bos/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.βos/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.vos/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.vos/

Noun

ὄροβος • (órobos) m (genitive ὀρόβου); second declension

1. Bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia).

Inflection

Second declension of ὄροβος, ὀρόβου

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὄροβος	ὀρόβω	ὄροβοι
Genitive	ὀρόβου	ὀρόβοιν	ὀρόβων
Dative	ὀρόβῳ	ὀρόβοιν	ὀρόβοις
Accusative	ὄροβον	ὀρόβω	ὀρόβους
Vocative	ὄροβε	ὀρόβω	ὄροβοι
Dialectal forms:
Notes:

References

• ὄροβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• «ὄροβος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • vetch idem, page 949.
• 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