λείβω
Ancient Greek
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *leh₁y-b-. Cognate with Latvian liet (“to pour”), assuming that the -β- is secondary. Latin lībō may have been borrowed from Greek, or comes from another root.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lěː.bɔː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈli.bo/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈli.βo/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈli.vo/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈli.vo/
Verb
editλείβω • (leíbō)
- (transitive) to pour, pour forth
- (transitive, intransitive) to pour a libation [with dative ‘to a god’]
- (transitive) to let flow, shed
- (passive voice) to melt or pine away
Inflection
edit Present: λείβω, λείβομαι
number | singular | dual | plural | ||||||||||
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first | second | third | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||
active | indicative | ἔλειβον | ἔλειβες | ἔλειβε(ν) | ἐλείβετον | ἐλειβέτην | ἐλείβομεν | ἐλείβετε | ἔλειβον | ||||
middle/ passive |
indicative | ἐλειβόμην | ἐλείβου | ἐλείβετο | ἐλείβεσθον | ἐλειβέσθην | ἐλειβόμεθᾰ | ἐλείβεσθε | ἐλείβοντο | ||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For conjugation in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal conjugation.
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Aorist: ἔλειψᾰ, ἐλειψᾰ́μην
Derived terms
edit- ἀπολείβω (apoleíbō)
- ἐπιλείβω (epileíbō)
- καταλείβω (kataleíbō)
- συλλείβω (sulleíbō)
- ὑπολείβω (hupoleíbō)
Related terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λείβω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 842-3
Further reading
edit- “λείβω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λείβω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λείβω”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λείβω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λείβω in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λείβω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter