Strabo

See also: strabo

English

Etymology

From Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strábōn).

Proper noun

Strabo

1. (63/64 B.C.E. – ca. 24 C.E.) Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.

Translations

geographer, philosopher, and historian

• Albanian: Straboni
• Arabic: سترابو
• Armenian: Ստրաբոն (Strabon)
• Catalan: Estrabó m
• French: Strabon (fr) m
• Galician: Estrabón (gl)
• Greek: Στράβων (el) m (Strávon)

  Ancient: Στράβων m (Strábōn)

• Italian: Strabone m
• Latin: Strabō m
• Occitan: Estrabon m
• Portuguese: Estrabão m, Estrabo m
• Romanian: Strabon
• Russian: Страбо́н (ru) m (Strabón)
• Sicilian: Strabbuni
• Spanish: Estrabón m

Anagrams

• Barots, Bartos, Bators, Botsra, STOBAR, Tobars, aborts, boarts, broast, rabots, tabors

Latin

Etymology

From strabō (“person with cross-eyes or distorted eyes; squinter; jealous person”). Also used as a calque of Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strábōn), from στραβός (strabós) of identical sense.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.boː/, [ˈs̠t̪räboː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈstra.bo/, [ˈst̪räːbo]

Proper noun

Strabō m sg (genitive Strabōnis); third declension

1. Strabo, a prominent Romano-Greek geographer and historian from Pontus in Asia Minor

   Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII

   Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics

2. a cognomen and agnomen used by the gens Fannia and others

   Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

    

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Strabō
genitive	Strabōnis
dative	Strabōnī
accusative	Strabōnem
ablative	Strabōne
vocative	Strabō

References

• “Străbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Străbo 2 Străbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The Geography of Strabo, 2014.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.
• Duane Roller, A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, 2018, p. 307.