Λίβανος

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Ancient Greek

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Mount Lebanon

Etymology

From a Semitic language, probably from a Canaanite word cognate with Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (ləḇōnā, “frankincense”) and Arabic لُبَان (lubān, “frankincense”), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /lí.ba.nos/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.βa.nos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/

Proper noun

Λίβᾰνος • (Líbanos) m (genitive Λιβᾰ́νου); second declension

Lebanon, Mount Lebanon (a mountain range in the country of Lebanon, Western Asia)

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ Λίβᾰνος; τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Λίβᾰνος ho Líbanos
Genitive	τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου toû Libánou
Dative	τῷ Λιβᾰ́νῳ tôi Libánōi
Accusative	τὸν Λίβᾰνον tòn Líbanon
Vocative	Λίβᾰνε Líbane
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Λίβανος (Lívanos)
→ Latin: Libanus
- Catalan: Líban
- French: Liban
- Italian: Libano
- Portuguese: Líbano
- Romanian: Liban
- Spanish: Líbano
- → Welsh: Libanus

References

Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015

Greek

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈli.va.nos/

Proper noun

Λίβανος • (Lívanos) m

Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Declension

	singular
nominative	Λίβανος (Lívanos)
genitive	Λιβάνου (Livánou)
accusative	Λίβανο (Lívano)
vocative	Λίβανε (Lívane)

Related terms

Λιβανέζα f (Livanéza, “Lebanese”)
Λιβανέζος m (Livanézos, “Lebanese”)
λιβανέζικος (livanézikos, “Lebanese”, adj)
λιβανικός (livanikós, “Lebanese”, adj)

Further reading

Λίβανος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el

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