ἰβίσκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐβίσκος (ebískos)
• ἱβίσκος (hibískos) — Koine

Etymology

Unknown, but possibly from a Celtic language. The word has been compared to ἰβηρίς (ibērís, “pepperwort”). Furnée thinks that the word comes from Pre-Greek, where the variation ε/ι is frequent.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.bís.kos/ → /iˈβis.kos/ → /iˈvis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.bís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈbis.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈβis.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈvis.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈvis.kos/

Noun

ἰβίσκος • (ibískos) m (genitive ἰβίσκου); second declension

1. marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis)

   Synonym: ἀλθαία (althaía)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἰβῐ́σκος; τοῦ ἰβῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἰβῐ́σκος ho ibískos	τὼ ἰβῐ́σκω tṑ ibískō	οἱ ἰβῐ́σκοι hoi ibískoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἰβῐ́σκου toû ibískou	τοῖν ἰβῐ́σκοιν toîn ibískoin	τῶν ἰβῐ́σκων tôn ibískōn
Dative	τῷ ἰβῐ́σκῳ tôi ibískōi	τοῖν ἰβῐ́σκοιν toîn ibískoin	τοῖς ἰβῐ́σκοις toîs ibískois
Accusative	τὸν ἰβῐ́σκον tòn ibískon	τὼ ἰβῐ́σκω tṑ ibískō	τοὺς ἰβῐ́σκους toùs ibískous
Vocative	ἰβῐ́σκε ibíske	ἰβῐ́σκω ibískō	ἰβῐ́σκοι ibískoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: hibiscus
  • → Translingual: Hibiscus
• → Latin: ibiscum
  • → Old High German: ibisca
    • Middle High German: ibesche
      • German: Eibisch

Further reading

• “ἰβίσκος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἰβίσκος 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