τάρβος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Cognate to Sanskrit तर्जति (tarjati, “to threaten, revile”), Latin torvus (“grim, fierce”) and Welsh tarfu (“to scare away”).
Furnée compares ταρμύσσω (tarmússō, “to frighten”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tár.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtar.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈtar.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈtar.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈtar.vos/
Noun
τάρβος • (tárbos) n (genitive τάρβεος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ τᾰ́ρβος tò tắrbos |
τὼ τᾰ́ρβεε tṑ tắrbee |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́ρβεᾰ tằ tắrbeă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ τᾰ́ρβεος toû tắrbeos |
τοῖν τᾰρβέοιν toîn tărbéoin |
τῶν τᾰρβέων tôn tărbéōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ τᾰ́ρβεῐ̈ tōî tắrbeĭ̈ |
τοῖν τᾰρβέοιν toîn tărbéoin |
τοῖς τᾰ́ρβεσῐ / τᾰ́ρβεσῐν toîs tắrbesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ τᾰ́ρβος tò tắrbos |
τὼ τᾰ́ρβεε tṑ tắrbee |
τᾰ̀ τᾰ́ρβεᾰ tằ tắrbeă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | τᾰ́ρβος tắrbos |
τᾰ́ρβεε tắrbee |
τᾰ́ρβεᾰ tắrbeă | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “τάρβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “τάρβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “τάρβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- τάρβος 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