Πόλυβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Bahuvrīhi compound of πολυ- (polu-, “many”) +‎ βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), literally “having many cattle”.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pó.ly.bos/ → /ˈpo.ly.βos/ → /ˈpo.li.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pó.ly.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ly.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ly.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.ly.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.li.vos/

Proper noun

Πόλῠβος • (Pólubos) m (genitive Πολῠ́βου); second declension

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Polybus — famously held by:
   1. a son of King Priam’s counsellor, Antenor, killed in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 11.59
   2. an Egyptian
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.126
   3. the father of the Ithacan nobleman, Eurymachus
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 15.519
   4. a suitor of Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.243
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.284
   5. a Phaeacian
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.373

Declension

Second declension of ὁ Πόλῠβος; τοῦ Πολῠ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Πόλῠβος ho Pólubos
Genitive	τοῦ Πολῠ́βου toû Polúbou
Dative	τῷ Πολῠ́βῳ tôi Polúbōi
Accusative	τὸν Πόλῠβον tòn Pólubon
Vocative	Πόλῠβε Pólube
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• Πολῠ́βῐος (Polúbios)

Descendants

• Greek: Πόλυβος (Pólyvos)
• Latin: Polybus

References

• “Πόλυβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• Πόλυβος 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, page 1,022

Further reading

• Polybus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia