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, f (genitive λίβανου); second declension
- frankincense
- (by extension) frankincense tree
Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ λίβανος; τοῦ, τῆς λιβάνου (Attic)
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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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, page 860