σίλλυβον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is unclear. The formation resembles σκόλυμος (skólumos), ὄροβος (órobos), κόρυμβος (kórumbos) and ὄχθοιβος (ókhthoibos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /síl.ly.bon/ → /ˈsil.ly.βon/ → /ˈsi.li.von/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /síl.ly.bon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.bon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.βon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.von/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li.von/

Noun

σίλλῠβον • (síllŭbon) n (genitive σιλλύβου); second declension

1. milk thistle (Silybum marianum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σίλλῠβον; τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllŭbon	τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillŭ́bō	τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tằ síllŭbă
Genitive	τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου toû sillŭ́bou	τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillŭ́boin	τῶν σιλλῠ́βων tôn sillŭ́bōn
Dative	τῷ σιλλῠ́βῳ tôi sillŭ́bōi	τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillŭ́boin	τοῖς σιλλῠ́βοις toîs sillŭ́bois
Accusative	τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllŭbon	τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillŭ́bō	τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tằ síllŭbă
Vocative	σίλλῠβον síllŭbon	σιλλῠ́βω sillŭ́bō	σίλλῠβᾰ síllŭbă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σίλλυβα (sílluba)
• σίλλυβος (síllubos)

Descendants

• Latin: sillybus
• Translingual: Silybum

Further reading

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