ὄλβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects ὄλπα (ólpa, “kind of food”); if the gloss is cognate, it must be Pre-Greek, which is certainly a good possibility.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ól.bos/ → /ˈol.βos/ → /ˈol.vos/

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

Noun

ὄλβος • (ólbos) m (genitive ὄλβου); second declension

1. wealth, prosperity, riches
2. happiness, bliss, fortune

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄλβος; τοῦ ὄλβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄλβος ho ólbos	τὼ ὄλβω tṑ ólbō	οἱ ὄλβοι hoi ólboi
Genitive	τοῦ ὄλβου toû ólbou	τοῖν ὄλβοιν toîn ólboin	τῶν ὄλβων tôn ólbōn
Dative	τῷ ὄλβῳ tôi ólbōi	τοῖν ὄλβοιν toîn ólboin	τοῖς ὄλβοις toîs ólbois
Accusative	τὸν ὄλβον tòn ólbon	τὼ ὄλβω tṑ ólbō	τοὺς ὄλβους toùs ólbous
Vocative	ὄλβε ólbe	ὄλβω ólbō	ὄλβοι ólboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἄνολβος (ánolbos)
• ὀλβήεις (olbḗeis)
• ὀλβία (olbía)
• Ὀλβία (Olbía)
• ὀλβίζω (olbízō)
• ὄλβιος (ólbios)
• ὀλβιστήρ (olbistḗr)
• ὀλβοδότειρα (olbodóteira)
• ὀλβοδοτήρ (olbodotḗr)
• ὀλβοδότης (olbodótēs)
• ὀλβοθρέμμων (olbothrémmōn)
• ὀλβοθύλακος (olbothúlakos)
• ὀλβομέλαθρος (olbomélathros)
• ὀλβονομέω (olbonoméō)
• ὀλβοφόρος (olbophóros)

 

Descendants

• Greek: όλβος (ólvos)

Further reading

• “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ὄλβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ὄλβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• 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
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blessedness idem, page 83.
  • bliss idem, page 83.
  • fortune idem, page 340.
  • happiness idem, page 384.
  • joy idem, page 464.
  • luck idem, page 503.
  • prosperity idem, page 653.
• “ὄλβος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011