ἔντυβον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἴντυβος (íntubos), ἴτυβος (ítubos)

Etymology

From Latin intibus (“endive”), itself probably from a Semitic source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /én.ty.bon/ → /ˈen.ty.βon/ → /ˈen.di.von/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /én.ty.bon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.bon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.βon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈen.ty.von/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈen.di.von/

Noun

ἔντῠβον • (éntŭbon) n (genitive ἐντῠ́βου); second declension

1. endive (Cichorium endivia)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ ἔντῠβον; τοῦ ἐντῠ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ ἔντῠβον tò éntŭbon	τὼ ἐντῠ́βω tṑ entŭ́bō	τᾰ̀ ἔντῠβᾰ tằ éntŭbă
Genitive	τοῦ ἐντῠ́βου toû entŭ́bou	τοῖν ἐντῠ́βοιν toîn entŭ́boin	τῶν ἐντῠ́βων tôn entŭ́bōn
Dative	τῷ ἐντῠ́βῳ tôi entŭ́bōi	τοῖν ἐντῠ́βοιν toîn entŭ́boin	τοῖς ἐντῠ́βοις toîs entŭ́bois
Accusative	τὸ ἔντῠβον tò éntŭbon	τὼ ἐντῠ́βω tṑ entŭ́bō	τᾰ̀ ἔντῠβᾰ tằ éntŭbă
Vocative	ἔντῠβον éntŭbon	ἐντῠ́βω entŭ́bō	ἔντῠβᾰ éntŭbă
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ἐντύβιον (entúbion)

Further reading

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