ἀρραβών

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ar̥.r̥a.bɔ̌ːn/ → /ar.raˈβon/ → /a.raˈvon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ar̥.r̥a.bɔ̌ːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ar.raˈbon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ar.raˈβon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ar.raˈvon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /a.raˈvon/

Etymology 1

A loanword from Biblical Hebrew עירבון / עֵרָבוֹן (ʿērāḇōn, “guarantee, deposit”), or from a common third source, probably Semitic.

Alternative forms

• ἀραβών (arabṓn)

Noun

ἀρρᾰβών • (arrhabṓn) m (genitive ἀρρᾰβῶνος); third declension

1. earnest money, caution money
2. (in general) earnest, pledge
3. present, bribe

Declension

Third declension of ὁ ἀρρᾰβών; τοῦ ἀρρᾰβῶνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀρρᾰβών ho arrhabṓn	τὼ ἀρρᾰβῶνε tṑ arrhabône	οἱ ἀρρᾰβῶνες hoi arrhabônes
Genitive	τοῦ ἀρρᾰβῶνος toû arrhabônos	τοῖν ἀρρᾰβώνοιν toîn arrhabṓnoin	τῶν ἀρρᾰβώνων tôn arrhabṓnōn
Dative	τῷ ἀρρᾰβῶνῐ tôi arrhabôni	τοῖν ἀρρᾰβώνοιν toîn arrhabṓnoin	τοῖς ἀρρᾰβῶσῐ / ἀρρᾰβῶσῐν toîs arrhabôsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ἀρρᾰβῶνᾰ tòn arrhabôna	τὼ ἀρρᾰβῶνε tṑ arrhabône	τοὺς ἀρρᾰβῶνᾰς toùs arrhabônas
Vocative	ἀρρᾰβών arrhabṓn	ἀρρᾰβῶνε arrhabône	ἀρρᾰβῶνες arrhabônes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: αρραβώνας (arravónas)
• → Latin: arrhabō

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

ἀρραβών • (arrhabṓn)

1. (hapax) fish hook (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Usage notes

• Only attested as a hapax in Hesychius:
  • 5th century CE, Hesychius Alexandreus, Συναγωγὴ Πασῶν Λέξεων κατὰ Στοιχεῖον Α:

    ἀῤῥαβών: πρόδομα. καὶ ἄγκιστρον

    arrhabṓn: pródoma. kaì ánkistron

    arrhabṓn: a prepayment; also fish hook

Further reading

• “ἀρραβών”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρραβών in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀρραβών in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• “ἀρραβών”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011