Λιβύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Homeric toponym (Odyssey IX.95, XXIII.311).

From Λῐ́βῠς (Líbus) +‎ -η (-ē), from the name of the Libu, a tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th century BC as rbw

and as 𐤋𐤁𐤉 (lby) in later Punic inscriptions.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /li.bý.ɛː/ → /liˈβy.i/ → /liˈvi.i/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.bý.ɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈby.e̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈβy.i/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈvy.i/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈvi.i/

Proper noun

Λῐβῠ́η • (Libúē) f (genitive Λῐβῠ́ης); first declension

1. North Africa
2. Northwestern Africa

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Λῐβῠ́η; τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Λῐβῠ́η hē Libúē
Genitive	τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης tês Libúēs
Dative	τῇ Λῐβῠ́ῃ têi Libúēi
Accusative	τὴν Λῐβῠ́ην tḕn Libúēn
Vocative	Λῐβῠ́η Libúē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: Libië
• → Albanian: Libia
• → Alemannic German: Libyen
• → Amharic: ሊቢያ (libiya)
• → Arabic: لِيبِيَا (lībiyā)
• → Aragonese: Libia
• → Aramaic: ܠܘܒܐ
• → Armenian: Լիբիա (Libia)
• → Asturian: Libia
• → Azerbaijani: Liviya
• → Bambara: Libya
• → Basque: Libia
• → Belarusian: Лівія (Livija), (Taraškievica orthography) Лібія (Libija)
• → Bengali: লিবিয়া (libiẏa)
• → Bishnupriya Manipuri: লিবিয়া
• → Breton: Libia
• → Bulgarian: Либия (Libija)
• → Catalan: Libia
• → Cebuano: Libya
• → Cornish: Libi
• → Crimean Tatar: Libiya
• → Czech: Libye
• → Danish: Libyen
• → Dutch: Libië
• → English: Libya
• → Esperanto: Libio
• → Estonian: Liibüa
• → Finnish: Libya
• → Franco-Provençal: Libie
• → French: Libye
• → Galician: Libia
• → Georgian: ლიბია (libia)
• → German: Libyen
• Greek: Λιβύη (Livýi)
• → Haitian Creole: Libi
• → Hindi: लीबिया (lībiyā)
• → Hungarian: Líbia
• → Icelandic: Líbýa, Líbía
• → Ido: Libia
• → Ilocano: Libya
• → Indonesian: Libya
• → Italian: Libia
• → Japanese: リビア (Ribia)
• → Javanese: Libya
• → Kabyle: Libya
• → Kannada: ಲಿಬ್ಯಾ (libyā)
• → Kapampangan: Libya
• → Kazakh: Либия (Libiä)
• → Korean: 리비아 (Ribia)
• → Northern Kurdish: Lîbya
• → Latin: Libya
• → Latvian: Lībija
• → Ligurian: Libia
• → Lingala: Libîya
• → Lithuanian: Libija
• → Lojban: libgu'e
• → Lower Sorbian: Libyska
• → Low German: Libyen
• → Luxembourgish: Libyen
• → Macedonian: Либија (Libija)
• → Malayalam: ലിബിയ (libiya)
• → Malay: Libya
• → Manx: Yn Leeb
• → Marathi: लिबिया (libiyā)
• → Neapolitan: Libbia
• → Norwegian: Libya
• → Novial: Libia
• → Occitan: Libia
• → Old English: Libia
• → Ossetian: Ливи (Livi)
• → Pashto: ليبيا
• → Persian: لیبی
• → Piedmontese: Libia
• → Polish: Libia
• → Portuguese: Líbia
• → Quechua: Libya
• → Romanian: Libia
• → Russian: Ливия (Livija)
• → Samogitian: Lėbėjė
• → Sanskrit: लिबिया (libiyā)
• → Scottish Gaelic: Libia
• → Serbo-Croatian: Либија, Libija
• → Sicilian: Libbia
• → Slovak: Líbya
• → Slovene: Libija
• → Somali: Libya
• → Spanish: Libia
• → Swahili: Libya
• → Swedish: Libyen
• → Tagalog: Libya
• → Tajik: Либия (Libiya)
• → Tamil: லிபியா (lipiyā)
• → Thai: ประเทศลิเบีย
• → Tibetan: ལིའི་པི་ཡ (li'i pi ya)
• → Tsonga: Libya
• → Turkish: Libya
• → Ukrainian: Лівія (Livija)
• → Upper Sorbian: Libyska
• → Urdu: لیبیا (lībiyā)
• → Uzbek: Liviya
• → Venetian: Łibia
• → Vietnamese: Libya
• → Volapük: Lübän
• → Welsh: Libya
• → West Frisian: Lybje
• → Wolof: Libi
• → Yiddish: ליביע (libye)
• → Zazaki: Libya

References

• “Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Λιβύη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G3033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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): /liˈvi.i/

Proper noun

Λιβύη • (Livýi) f

1. Libya (a country in North Africa)

Declension

  Λιβύη

case     \     number	singular
nominative	Λιβύη •
genitive	Λιβύης •
accusative	Λιβύη •
vocative	Λιβύη •

Related terms

• Λίβυα f (Lívya, “Libyan”)
• Λίβυος m (Lívyos, “Libyan”)
• λιβυκός (livykós, “Libyan”, adjective)

Further reading

• Λιβύη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el