βράβυλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βάρβιλος (bárbilos), βράβιλον (brábilon), βράβυλος (brábulos)

Etymology

Unknown, but maybe a loanword from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brá.by.lon/ → /ˈβra.βy.lon/ → /ˈvra.vi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brá.by.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbra.by.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβra.βy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvra.vy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvra.vi.lon/

Noun

βρᾰ́βῠλον • (brắbŭlon) n (genitive βρᾰβῠ́λου); second declension

1. sloe (Prunus spinosa)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον; τοῦ βρᾰβῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brắbŭlon	τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brăbŭ́lō	τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tằ brắbŭlă
Genitive	τοῦ βρᾰβῠ́λου toû brăbŭ́lou	τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brăbŭ́loin	τῶν βρᾰβῠ́λων tôn brăbŭ́lōn
Dative	τῷ βρᾰβῠ́λῳ tôi brăbŭ́lōi	τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brăbŭ́loin	τοῖς βρᾰβῠ́λοις toîs brăbŭ́lois
Accusative	τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brắbŭlon	τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brăbŭ́lō	τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tằ brắbŭlă
Vocative	βρᾰ́βῠλον brắbŭlon	βρᾰβῠ́λω brăbŭ́lō	βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ brắbŭlă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βράβυλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βράβυλον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• 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