Ἄλβις

• Ἄλβιος (Álbios)

Borrowed from Latin Albis, from Proto-Germanic *albī.

Ἄλβῐς • (Álbĭs) f (genitive Ἄλβῐος or Ἄλβῐδος); third declension

1. Elbe (a river in central Europe)
   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 1.2.1:

     Οἱ δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι τὰ ἑσπέρια τῆς Εὐρώπης ἅπαντα μέχρι Ἄλβιος ποταμοῦ τοῦ τὴν Γερμανίαν δίχα διαιροῦντος τά τε πέραν Ἴστρου τὰ μέχρι Τύρα ποταμοῦ.

     Hoi dè Rhōmaîoi tà hespéria tês Eurṓpēs hápanta mékhri Álbios potamoû toû tḕn Germanían díkha diairoûntos tá te péran Ístrou tà mékhri Túra potamoû.

     • 1854 translation by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer

       And the Romans the entire west of Europe as far as the river Elbe, which divides Germany, and the country beyond the Ister to the river Dniester.

   • 64 BCE – 24 CE, Strabo, Geography 7.1.4:

     Κἂν πλείω δὲ γνώριμα ὑπῆρξεν, εἰ ἐπέτρεπε τοῖς στρατηγοῖς ὁ Σεβαστὸς διαβαίνειν τὸν Ἄλβιν, μετιοῦσι τοὺς ἐκεῖσε ἀπανισταμένους.

     Kàn pleíō dè gnṓrima hupêrxen, ei epétrepe toîs stratēgoîs ho Sebastòs diabaínein tòn Álbin, metioûsi toùs ekeîse apanistaménous.

     • 1854 translation by H. C. Hamilton and W. Falconer

       and we should have become acquainted with a greater number of their tribes, if Augustus had permitted his generals to pass the Elbe, in pursuit of those who had fled thither.

   • 90 CE – 168 CE, Ptolemy, Geography 2.11.1
   • 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 77.14.3
   • c. 4th century AD, Marcian of Heraclea, Periplus of the Outer Sea 2.32–33

• Ἄλβις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)