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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Ὕβλα (Húbla, “Hybla”) + -ων (-ōn, possessive suffix). The suffix derives from Proto-Indo-European *-Hō, dubbed "Hoffmann's suffix", meaning "one who possesses X".
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hý.blɔːn/ → /ˈy.βlon/ → /ˈi.vlon/
Proper noun
Ὕβλων • (Húblōn) m (genitive Ὕβλωνος); third declension
- (Sicel hero) A Siculian chief of south-eastern Sicily, who founded the Hyblaean Megara.
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Descendants
References
- “Ὕβλων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Ὕβλων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Ὕβλων 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