βράβυλον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• βάρβιλος (bárbilos), βράβιλον (brábilon), βράβυλος (brábulos)

Etymology

Unknown, but maybe a loanword from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /brá.by.lon/ → /ˈβra.βy.lon/ → /ˈvra.vi.lon/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /brá.by.lon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈbra.by.lon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈβra.βy.lon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈvra.vy.lon/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈvra.vi.lon/

Noun

βρᾰ́βῠλον • (brábulon) n (genitive βρᾰβῠ́λου); second declension

1. sloe (Prunus spinosa)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον; τοῦ βρᾰβῠ́λου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brábulon	τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brabúlō	τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tà brábula
Genitive	τοῦ βρᾰβῠ́λου toû brabúlou	τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brabúloin	τῶν βρᾰβῠ́λων tôn brabúlōn
Dative	τῷ βρᾰβῠ́λῳ tôi brabúlōi	τοῖν βρᾰβῠ́λοιν toîn brabúloin	τοῖς βρᾰβῠ́λοις toîs brabúlois
Accusative	τὸ βρᾰ́βῠλον tò brábulon	τὼ βρᾰβῠ́λω tṑ brabúlō	τᾰ̀ βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ tà brábula
Vocative	βρᾰ́βῠλον brábulon	βρᾰβῠ́λω brabúlō	βρᾰ́βῠλᾰ brábula
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βράβυλον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βράβυλον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βράβυλον in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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