βολβός
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
The 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 edit
βολβός • (bolbós) m (genitive βολβοῦ); second declension
- (botany) bulb of various plants, especially onion
- tassel hyacinth (Muscari comosum)
- Synonym: ἀγριοκρόμμυον (agriokrómmuon)
- (anatomy) eyeball
Inflection edit
Case / # | 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 edit
Further 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 edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek βολβός (bolbós).
Noun edit
βολβός • (volvós) m (plural βολβοί)