Ἕβρος

See also: ἔβρος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Thracian *Ebrus (“wide”) and thus meaning "the wide river", or from Thracian ebros (“splasher”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hé.bros/ → /ˈe.βros/ → /ˈe.vros/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hé.bros/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e.bros/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.βros/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vros/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈe.vros/

Proper noun

Ἕβρος • (Hébros) m (genitive Ἕβρου); second declension

1. the river Hebrus or Evros; the river Maritsa

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Ἕβρος; τοῦ Ἕβρου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἕβρος ho Hébros
Genitive	τοῦ Ἕβρου toû Hébrou
Dative	τῷ Ἕβρῳ tôi Hébrōi
Accusative	τὸν Ἕβρον tòn Hébron
Vocative	Ἕβρε Hébre
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Greek: Έβρος (Évros)
• → Latin: Hebrus, Ebrus

Further reading

• Ἕβρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[3], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012
• Georgiev, Vladimir Ivanov Georgiev. Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages (1981, p. 351)