βυβός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Onomatopoeic word, related to βύω (búō, “to stuff full of, plug”), either with reduplication or with suffix -βος.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /by.bós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /byˈbos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /βyˈβos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /vyˈvos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /viˈvos/
Adjective
βῠβός • (bŭbós) m (feminine βῠβή, neuter βῠβόν); first/second declension
- Hesychius gives the definition as: μεστός (mestós, “full, sated”), πλήρης (plḗrēs, “full, satisfied”), μέγας (mégas, “big”).
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
| Nominative | βῠβός bŭbós |
βῠβή bŭbḗ |
βῠβόν bŭbón |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβᾱ́ bŭbā́ |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβοί bŭboí |
βῠβαί bŭbaí |
βῠβᾰ́ bŭbắ | |||||
| Genitive | βῠβοῦ bŭboû |
βῠβῆς bŭbês |
βῠβοῦ bŭboû |
βῠβοῖν bŭboîn |
βῠβαῖν bŭbaîn |
βῠβοῖν bŭboîn |
βῠβῶν bŭbôn |
βῠβῶν bŭbôn |
βῠβῶν bŭbôn | |||||
| Dative | βῠβῷ bŭbōî |
βῠβῇ bŭbēî |
βῠβῷ bŭbōî |
βῠβοῖν bŭboîn |
βῠβαῖν bŭbaîn |
βῠβοῖν bŭboîn |
βῠβοῖς bŭboîs |
βῠβαῖς bŭbaîs |
βῠβοῖς bŭboîs | |||||
| Accusative | βῠβόν bŭbón |
βῠβήν bŭbḗn |
βῠβόν bŭbón |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβᾱ́ bŭbā́ |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβούς bŭboús |
βῠβᾱ́ς bŭbā́s |
βῠβᾰ́ bŭbắ | |||||
| Vocative | βῠβέ bŭbé |
βῠβή bŭbḗ |
βῠβόν bŭbón |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβᾱ́ bŭbā́ |
βῠβώ bŭbṓ |
βῠβοί bŭboí |
βῠβαί bŭbaí |
βῠβᾰ́ bŭbắ | |||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| βῠβῶς bŭbôs |
βῠβώτερος bŭbṓteros |
βῠβώτᾰτος bŭbṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “βυβός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βυβός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: β