ἰβίσκος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ἐβίσκος (ebískos)
• ἱβίσκος (hibískos) — Koine

Etymology

Unknown, but possibly from a Celtic language. The word has been compared to ἰβηρίς (ibērís, “pepperwort”). Furnée thinks that the word comes from Pre-Greek, where the variation ε/ι is frequent.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /i.bís.kos/ → /iˈβis.kos/ → /iˈvis.kos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /i.bís.kos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iˈbis.kos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /iˈβis.kos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iˈvis.kos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iˈvis.kos/

Noun

ἰβίσκος • (ibískos) m (genitive ἰβίσκου); second declension

1. marsh mallow (Althaea officinalis)

   Synonym: ἀλθαία (althaía)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ἰβῐ́σκος; τοῦ ἰβῐ́σκου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ἰβῐ́σκος ho ibĭ́skos	τὼ ἰβῐ́σκω tṑ ibĭ́skō	οἱ ἰβῐ́σκοι hoi ibĭ́skoi
Genitive	τοῦ ἰβῐ́σκου toû ibĭ́skou	τοῖν ἰβῐ́σκοιν toîn ibĭ́skoin	τῶν ἰβῐ́σκων tôn ibĭ́skōn
Dative	τῷ ἰβῐ́σκῳ tôi ibĭ́skōi	τοῖν ἰβῐ́σκοιν toîn ibĭ́skoin	τοῖς ἰβῐ́σκοις toîs ibĭ́skois
Accusative	τὸν ἰβῐ́σκον tòn ibĭ́skon	τὼ ἰβῐ́σκω tṑ ibĭ́skō	τοὺς ἰβῐ́σκους toùs ibĭ́skous
Vocative	ἰβῐ́σκε ibĭ́ske	ἰβῐ́σκω ibĭ́skō	ἰβῐ́σκοι ibĭ́skoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: hibiscus
  • → Translingual: Hibiscus
• → Latin: ibiscum
  • → Old High German: ibisca
    • Middle High German: ibesche
      • German: Eibisch

Further reading

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