ῥόβιλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Specht, related to Polish wróbel (“sparrow”). However, Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -ιλλ-.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /r̥ó.bil.los/ → /ˈro.βil.los/ → /ˈro.vi.los/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ó.bil.los/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.bil.los/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.βil.los/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.vil.los/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.vi.los/

Noun

ῥόβιλλος • (rhóbillos)

1. Hesychius gives the definition as: βασιλίσκος ὄρνις (basilískos órnis, literally “wren”).

Further reading

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