ἔντυβον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἴντυβος (íntubos), ἴτυβος (ítubos)

Etymology

From Latin intibus (“endive”), itself probably from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.ty.bon/ → /ˈen.ty.βon/ → /ˈen.di.von/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /én.ty.bon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.bon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.βon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.von/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.von/

Noun

ἔντῠβον • (éntubon) n (genitive ἐντῠ́βου); second declension

1. endive (Cichorium endivia)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔντῠβον; τοῦ ἐντῠ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔντῠβον tò éntubon	τὼ ἐντῠ́βω tṑ entúbō	τᾰ̀ ἔντῠβᾰ tà éntuba
Genitive	τοῦ ἐντῠ́βου toû entúbou	τοῖν ἐντῠ́βοιν toîn entúboin	τῶν ἐντῠ́βων tôn entúbōn
Dative	τῷ ἐντῠ́βῳ tôi entúbōi	τοῖν ἐντῠ́βοιν toîn entúboin	τοῖς ἐντῠ́βοις toîs entúbois
Accusative	τὸ ἔντῠβον tò éntubon	τὼ ἐντῠ́βω tṑ entúbō	τᾰ̀ ἔντῠβᾰ tà éntuba
Vocative	ἔντῠβον éntubon	ἐντῠ́βω entúbō	ἔντῠβᾰ éntuba
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐντύβιον (entúbion)

Further reading

• “ἔντυβον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἔντυβον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἔντυβον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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