Πόλυβος
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editBahuvrīhi compound of πολυ- (polu-, “many”) + βοῦς (boûs, “ox”), literally “having many cattle”.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pó.ly.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpo.ly.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.ly.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpo.ly.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpo.li.vos/
Proper noun
editΠόλῠβος • (Pólubos) m (genitive Πολῠ́βου); second declension
- a male given name, equivalent to English Polybus — famously held by:
- a son of King Priam’s counsellor, Antenor, killed in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus
- an Egyptian
- the father of the Ithacan nobleman, Eurymachus
- a suitor of Penelope (the wife of Odysseus)
- a Phaeacian
- a son of King Priam’s counsellor, Antenor, killed in the Trojan War by Neoptolemus
Declension
editCase / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Πόλῠβος ho Pólubos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Πολῠ́βου toû Polúbou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Πολῠ́βῳ tôi Polúbōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Πόλῠβον tòn Pólubon | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πόλῠβε Pólube | ||||||||||||
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Related terms
edit- Πολῠ́βῐος (Polúbios)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “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
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- Ancient Greek 3-syllable words
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- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension proper nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the second declension
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
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