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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *yēgʷeh₂ (“power, (youthful) strength”). Cognate with Latvian jēga.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛ̌ː.bɛː/ → /ˈi.βi/ → /ˈi.vi/
Noun
ἥβη • (hḗbē) f (genitive ἥβης); first declension
- youth
- vigour
- pubes
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Further reading
- “ἥβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἥβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ἥβη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἥβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἥβη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012