πρόβατον

From προβαίνω (probaínō, “to go on”) + -τος (-tos).

πρόβατον • (próbaton) n (genitive προβάτου); second declension

1. (mostly in plural)
   1. (Ionic, Doric) cattle, flocks, herds
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.41
      • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On Joints 8
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.61
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 14.124
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.550
      • 7th–6th centuries BC, Homeric Hymn to Hermes 571
      • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 558
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.203
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.133
   2. (Attic, Koine) sheep

      Synonym: οἶς (oîs), ἀρήν (arḗn)

      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 714
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.14
   3. slaughtered animals, animals for sacrifices
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.56
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.207
   4. (proverbial) stupid, lazy people
      • 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1203
      • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 32
      • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 59.8
      • 200 BCE – 118 BCE, Polybius, The Histories 5.35.13
2. a kind of marine fish
   • Oppian, Halieutica 1.146
   • Oppian, Halieutica 3.139
   • 175 CE – 235 CE, Claudius Aelianus, On the Nature of Animals 9.38

• οἶς (oîs)
• ἀρήν (arḗn)
• κριός (kriós)
• ἀμνός (amnós)

• Greek: πρόβατο (próvato)
• Mariupol Greek: про́вату (próvatu)

• “πρόβατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πρόβατον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “πρόβατον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• πρόβατον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πρόβατον”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4263 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 764
• “πρόβατον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011