βόλβιτον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βόβλιτον (bóbliton), βόλβιθος (bólbithos), βόλβιτος (bólbitos), βόλβυθον (bólbuthon)

Etymology

According to Beekes, in view of the alternations and the suffix -ιτον, the word is probably Pre-Greek. Compare also βόλιτον (bóliton, “cow dung”). Close to Proto-Albanian *balgā (“dung”) (Albanian bajgë), which may be from the same substratum, but would point to Proto-Indo-European *bolgʷ- if inherited.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ból.bi.ton/ → /ˈβol.βi.ton/ → /ˈvol.vi.ton/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ból.bi.ton/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbol.bi.ton/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβol.βi.ton/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvol.vi.ton/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvol.vi.ton/

Noun

βόλβῐτον • (bólbiton) n (genitive βολβῐ́του); second declension

1. cowpie, dung

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βόλβῐτον; τοῦ βολβῐ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βόλβῐτον tò bólbiton	τὼ βολβῐ́τω tṑ bolbítō	τᾰ̀ βόλβῐτᾰ tà bólbita
Genitive	τοῦ βολβῐ́του toû bolbítou	τοῖν βολβῐ́τοιν toîn bolbítoin	τῶν βολβῐ́των tôn bolbítōn
Dative	τῷ βολβῐ́τῳ tôi bolbítōi	τοῖν βολβῐ́τοιν toîn bolbítoin	τοῖς βολβῐ́τοις toîs bolbítois
Accusative	τὸ βόλβῐτον tò bólbiton	τὼ βολβῐ́τω tṑ bolbítō	τᾰ̀ βόλβῐτᾰ tà bólbita
Vocative	βόλβῐτον bólbiton	βολβῐ́τω bolbítō	βόλβῐτᾰ bólbita
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• βολβιτόω (bolbitóō)
• βολβιτώδης (bolbitṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “βόλβιτον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βόλβιτον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βόλβιτον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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