ὄλβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Furnée connects ὄλπα (ólpa, “kind of food”). According to Beekes, if the gloss is cognate, then it must be Pre-Greek.^[1] The linguist Michael Janda suggests that the term may derive from Proto-Indo-European *su(h₂)-ol-gʷh₂o- (“that which goes towards the Sun”) and is perhaps related to Sanskrit svargá. This may indicate a possible Indo-European religious concept in which the Sun was associated with the afterlife.^[2]

Pronunciation

(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

wealth, prosperity, riches
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 tōî 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)

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄλβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1067
^ Ranko Matasović (2016) "A READER IN COMPARATIVE INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION". University of Zagreb."

“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
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] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ὄλβος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1067

[2] Ranko Matasović (2016) "A READER IN COMPARATIVE INDO-EUROPEAN RELIGION". University of Zagreb."

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