λόβιον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λοβός (lobós, “lobe; capsule”) + -ιον (-ion, diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ló.bi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈlo.bi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈlo.βi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈlo.vi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈlo.vi.on/
Noun
λόβῐον • (lóbĭon) n (genitive λοβῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ λόβῐον tò lóbĭon |
τὼ λοβῐ́ω tṑ lobĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λόβῐᾰ tằ lóbĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ λοβῐ́ου toû lobĭ́ou |
τοῖν λοβῐ́οιν toîn lobĭ́oin |
τῶν λοβῐ́ων tôn lobĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ λοβῐ́ῳ tōî lobĭ́ōi |
τοῖν λοβῐ́οιν toîn lobĭ́oin |
τοῖς λοβῐ́οις toîs lobĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ λόβῐον tò lóbĭon |
τὼ λοβῐ́ω tṑ lobĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ λόβῐᾰ tằ lóbĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | λόβῐον lóbĭon |
λοβῐ́ω lobĭ́ō |
λόβῐᾰ lóbĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Classical Persian: لوبیا (lôbiyâ), لوویا (lôviyâ)
- → Arabic: لُوبِيَا (lūbiyā), لُوبِيَاء (lūbiyāʔ), لُوبَاء (lūbāʔ), لُوبِيَة (lūbiya), לוביא — Judeo-Arabic
- → Aramaic:
- → Armenian: լոբի (lobi)
- → Azerbaijani: lobya
- → Hindustani:
- → Kazakh: лобия (lobiä)
- →? Russian: ло́бия (lóbija)
- → Northern Luri: ڵووںە (llooə)
- → Turkmen: noýba
- → Middle Armenian: լովիաս (lovias), լովէստ (lovēst), լուպիա (lupia), լուպիայ (lupiay), լուպիաս (lupias), լուվիաս (luvias), լօվիաս (lōvias)
- Armenian: լուբիա (lubia)
- → Middle Georgian: ლობიო (lobio), ლებუა (lebua) (Kakheti), ლებიო (lebio) (Mtiuleti, Khevi, Pshavi, Khevsureti, Tusheti), ლობიე (lobie), ლობიეი (lobiei) (Guria), ლუბია (lubia), ლუბიო (lubio), ლობია (lobia) (Fereydan) (see there for further descendants)
- → Punjabi:
- → Turkish: lobya
- → Uzbek: loviya
Further reading
- “λόβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- λόβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette