βολβός
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editThe form of the word is expressive, with a kind of reduplication. There are no direct relatives and it is reminiscent of words for round and globular objects, like Latin bulla (“water bubble”) and Latvian burbulis (“water bubble”). Further, similar to Armenian բողկ (boġk, “radish”), Sanskrit बल्बज (balbaja, “Indian goosegrass”), and Albanian bajgë.
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /bol.bós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /bolˈbos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βolˈβos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /volˈvos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /volˈvos/
Noun
editβολβός • (bolbós) m (genitive βολβοῦ); second declension
- (botany) bulb of various plants, especially onion
- tassel hyacinth (Muscari comosum)
- Synonym: ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)
- (anatomy) eyeball
Inflection
editCase / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ βολβός ho bolbós |
τὼ βολβώ tṑ bolbṓ |
οἱ βολβοί hoi bolboí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ βολβοῦ toû bolboû |
τοῖν βολβοῖν toîn bolboîn |
τῶν βολβῶν tôn bolbôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ βολβῷ tôi bolbôi |
τοῖν βολβοῖν toîn bolboîn |
τοῖς βολβοῖς toîs bolboîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν βολβόν tòn bolbón |
τὼ βολβώ tṑ bolbṓ |
τοὺς βολβούς toùs bolboús | ||||||||||
Vocative | βολβέ bolbé |
βολβώ bolbṓ |
βολβοί bolboí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
edit- βολβάριον (bolbárion)
- βολβίνη (bolbínē)
- βολβίον (bolbíon)
- βολβίσκος (bolbískos)
- βολβοειδής (bolboeidḗs)
- βολβοκάστανον (bolbokástanon)
- βολβοφακῆ (bolbophakê)
- βολβώδης (bolbṓdēs)
- βολβωρυχέω (bolbōrukhéō)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βολβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- βολβός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- βολβός 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
Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós).
Noun
editβολβός • (volvós) m (plural βολβοί)
Declension
editCategories:
- Ancient Greek 2-syllable words
- Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation
- Ancient Greek lemmas
- Ancient Greek nouns
- Ancient Greek oxytone terms
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns
- Ancient Greek second-declension nouns
- Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the second declension
- grc:Botany
- grc:Anatomy
- grc:Asparagus family plants
- Greek terms inherited from Ancient Greek
- Greek terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Greek lemmas
- Greek nouns
- Greek masculine nouns
- Greek nouns declining like 'αδελφός'