Πολύβιος
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πολῠ- (polu-, “many”) + βίος (bíos, “life”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /po.lý.bi.os/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /poˈly.bi.os/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /poˈly.βi.os/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /poˈly.vi.os/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /poˈli.vi.os/
Proper noun
Πολῠ́βῐος • (Polúbios) m (genitive Πολῠβῐ́ου); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ Πολῠ́βῐος hē Polúbios |
τὼ Πολῠβῐ́ω tṑ Polubíō |
αἱ Πολῠ́βῐοι hai Polúbioi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς Πολῠβῐ́ου tês Polubíou |
τοῖν Πολῠβῐ́οιν toîn Polubíoin |
τῶν Πολῠβῐ́ων tôn Polubíōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ Πολῠβῐ́ῳ têi Polubíōi |
τοῖν Πολῠβῐ́οιν toîn Polubíoin |
ταῖς Πολῠβῐ́οις taîs Polubíois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν Πολῠ́βῐον tḕn Polúbion |
τὼ Πολῠβῐ́ω tṑ Polubíō |
τᾱ̀ς Πολῠβῐ́ους tā̀s Polubíous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | Πολῠ́βῐε Polúbie |
Πολῠβῐ́ω Polubíō |
Πολῠ́βῐοι Polúbioi | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- Πόλυβος (Pólubos)
Descendants
- Catalan: Polibi
- French: Polybe
- Galician: Polibio
- Greek: Πολύβιος (Polývios)
- Italian: Polibio
- Latin: Polybius
- Portuguese: Políbio
- Spanish: Polibio
- Translingual: Polybius
Further reading
- Πολύβιος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022