βάρβιτος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βάρβιτον (bárbiton)
• βάρμιτος (bármitos)
• βάρμος (bármos)
• βάρωμος (bárōmos)

Etymology

Uncertain, probably from Phrygian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bár.bi.tos/ → /ˈβar.βi.tos/ → /ˈvar.vi.tos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bár.bi.tos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbar.bi.tos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβar.βi.tos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.vi.tos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvar.vi.tos/

Noun

βάρβῐτος • (bárbitos) m or f (genitive βαρβῐ́του); second declension

1. (music) barbitos

Declension

Second declension of ὁ, ἡ βάρβῐτος; τοῦ, τῆς βαρβῐ́του (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ βάρβῐτος ho, hē bárbitos	τὼ βαρβῐ́τω tṑ barbítō	οἱ, αἱ βάρβῐτοι hoi, hai bárbitoi
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς βαρβῐ́του toû, tês barbítou	τοῖν βαρβῐ́τοιν toîn barbítoin	τῶν βαρβῐ́των tôn barbítōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ βαρβῐ́τῳ tôi, têi barbítōi	τοῖν βαρβῐ́τοιν toîn barbítoin	τοῖς, ταῖς βαρβῐ́τοις toîs, taîs barbítois
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν βάρβῐτον tòn, tḕn bárbiton	τὼ βαρβῐ́τω tṑ barbítō	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς βαρβῐ́τους toùs, tā̀s barbítous
Vocative	βάρβῐτε bárbite	βαρβῐ́τω barbítō	βάρβῐτοι bárbitoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: βάρβιτος (várvitos)
• → Classical Syriac: ܒܪܒܝܛܐ (barbīṭā)
• → Latin: barbitos
  • → English: barbitos, barbiton
• → Middle Persian: [script needed] (blbwt' /⁠barbut, barbat⁠/, “barbat, lute”) (possibly)
  • → Chinese: 琵琶 (pípá)
  • Persian: بربت (barbat), بربط (barbat)
    • Tajik: барбат (barbat)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بربط (berbatt)
  • → Arabic: بربط (barbuṭ, barbaṭ, barbiṭ)
  • → Georgian: ბარბითი (barbiti)
  • → Middle Armenian: բարբուտ (barbut), բարբութ (barbutʻ)

References

• “βάρβιτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βάρβιτος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βάρβιτος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βάρβιτος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • harp idem, page 386.
  • lyre idem, page 506.
• حسن‌دوست، محمد، «دربارهٔ چند لغتِ یونانیِ دخیل در زبان فارسی»، نامهٔ فرهنگستان (زمستان ۱۳۷۵): شمارهٔ ۸، صفحه ۹۷
• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بربت”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press, page بربط
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume I, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 201