ὄβρια

Ancient Greek

Etymology

For ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala), compare animal names and hypocoristic formations like ὀρτάλιχος (ortálikhos) and ὁσσίχος (hossíkhos). Furnée assumes Pre-Greek origin, with interchange ὀ/ἰ between ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala) and ἰβρίκαλοι (ibríkaloi, “young pigs”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.bri.a/ → /ˈo.βri.a/ → /ˈo.vri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.bri.a/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.bri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.βri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vri.a/

Noun

ὄβρῐᾰ • (óbria) n pl (genitive ὀβρῐ́ων); second declension

1. cubs of wild animals

Declension

Second declension of τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ; τῶν ὀβρῐ́ων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ tà óbria
Genitive	τῶν ὀβρῐ́ων tôn obríōn
Dative	τοῖς ὀβρῐ́οις toîs obríois
Accusative	τᾰ̀ ὄβρῐᾰ tà óbria
Vocative	ὄβρῐᾰ óbria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀβρίκαλα (obríkala)

Further reading

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