ἀττέλαβος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

ἀττάλαβος (attálabos), ἀττέλεβος (attélebos)

Etymology

According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -βος.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /at.té.la.bos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /atˈte.la.bos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /atˈte.la.βos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /atˈte.la.vos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈte.la.vos/

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Noun

ἀττέλᾰβος • (attélăbos) m (genitive ἀττελᾰ́βου); second declension

locust
Synonym: ἀκρίς (akrís)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἀττέλᾰβος; τοῦ ἀττελᾰ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἀττέλᾰβος ho attélăbos	τὼ ἀττελᾰ́βω tṑ attelắbō	οἱ ἀττέλᾰβοι hoi attélăboi
Genitive	τοῦ ἀττελᾰ́βου toû attelắbou	τοῖν ἀττελᾰ́βοιν toîn attelắboin	τῶν ἀττελᾰ́βων tôn attelắbōn
Dative	τῷ ἀττελᾰ́βῳ tôi attelắbōi	τοῖν ἀττελᾰ́βοιν toîn attelắboin	τοῖς ἀττελᾰ́βοις toîs attelắbois
Accusative	τὸν ἀττέλᾰβον tòn attélăbon	τὼ ἀττελᾰ́βω tṑ attelắbō	τοὺς ἀττελᾰ́βους toùs attelắbous
Vocative	ἀττέλᾰβε attélăbe	ἀττελᾰ́βω attelắbō	ἀττέλᾰβοι attélăboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

ἀττελεβόφθαλμος (attelebóphthalmos)

Descendants

→ Translingual: Attelabus

“ἀττέλαβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἀττέλαβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἀττέλεβος 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