Λίβυς

Ancient Greek

From the name of the Libu, a tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th century BC as rbw

and as 𐤋𐤁𐤉 (lby) in later Punic inscriptions.

Λῐ́βῠς • (Lĭ́bŭs) m (genitive Λῐ́βῠος); third declension

Third declension of ὁ Λῐ́βῠς; τοῦ Λῐ́βῠος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Λῐ́βῠς ho Lĭ́bŭs	τὼ Λῐ́βῠε tṑ Lĭ́bŭe	οἱ Λῐ́βῠες hoi Lĭ́bŭes
Genitive	τοῦ Λῐ́βῠος toû Lĭ́bŭos	τοῖν Λῐβῠ́οιν toîn Lĭbŭ́oin	τῶν Λῐβῠ́ων tôn Lĭbŭ́ōn
Dative	τῷ Λῐ́βῠῐ̈ / Λῐ́βυι tōî Lĭ́bŭĭ̈ / Lĭ́bui	τοῖν Λῐβῠ́οιν toîn Lĭbŭ́oin	τοῖς Λῐ́βῠσῐ / Λῐ́βῠσῐν toîs Lĭ́bŭsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν Λῐ́βῠν tòn Lĭ́bŭn	τὼ Λῐ́βῠε tṑ Lĭ́bŭe	τοὺς Λῐ́βῡς / Λῐ́βῠᾰς toùs Lĭ́būs / Lĭ́bŭăs
Vocative	Λῐ́βῠ Lĭ́bŭ	Λῐ́βῠε Lĭ́bŭe	Λῐ́βῠες Lĭ́bŭes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“Λίβυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Λίβυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Λίβυς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015