Λίβανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From a Semitic language, probably from a Canaanite word cognate to Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (ləḇōnā, “frankincense”) and Arabic لُبَان (lubān, “frankincense”), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /lí.ba.nos/ → /ˈli.βa.nos/ → /ˈli.va.nos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lí.ba.nos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.βa.nos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/

Proper noun

Λίβᾰνος • (Líbanos) m (genitive Λιβᾰ́νου); second declension

1. Lebanon, Mount Lebanon (a mountain range in the country of Lebanon, Western Asia)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Λίβᾰνος; τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Λίβᾰνος ho Líbanos
Genitive	τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου toû Libánou
Dative	τῷ Λιβᾰ́νῳ tôi Libánōi
Accusative	τὸν Λίβᾰνον tòn Líbanon
Vocative	Λίβᾰνε Líbane
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Λίβανος (Lívanos)
• → Latin: Libanus
  • Catalan: Líban
  • French: Liban
  • Italian: Libano
  • Portuguese: Líbano
  • Spanish: Líbano
  • → Welsh: Libanus

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015

Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/

Proper noun

Λίβανος • (Lívanos) m

1. Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Declension

  Λίβανος

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Λίβανος •
genitive	Λιβάνου •
accusative	Λίβανο •
vocative	Λίβανε •

Related terms

• Λιβανέζα f (Livanéza, “Lebanese”)
• Λιβανέζος m (Livanézos, “Lebanese”)
• λιβανέζικος (livanézikos, “Lebanese”, adj)
• λιβανικός (livanikós, “Lebanese”, adj)

Further reading

• Λίβανος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el