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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Furnée connects ὄλπα (ólpa, “kind of food”); if the gloss is cognate, it must be Pre-Greek, which is certainly a good possibility.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ól.bos/ → /ˈol.βos/ → /ˈol.vos/
Noun
ὄλβος • (ólbos) m (genitive ὄλβου); second declension
- wealth, prosperity, riches
- happiness, bliss, fortune
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Further reading
- “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ὄλβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ὄλβος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ὄλβος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “ὄλβος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011