σίλλυβον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

The origin is unclear. The formation resembles σκόλυμος (skólumos), ὄροβος (órobos), κόρυμβος (kórumbos) and ὄχθοιβος (ókhthoibos).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /síl.ly.bon/ → /ˈsil.ly.βon/ → /ˈsi.li.von/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /síl.ly.bon/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.bon/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.βon/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈsil.ly.von/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.li.von/

Noun

σίλλῠβον • (síllubon) n (genitive σιλλύβου); second declension

1. milk thistle (Silybum marianum)

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ σίλλῠβον; τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllubon	τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillúbō	τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tà sílluba
Genitive	τοῦ σιλλῠ́βου toû sillúbou	τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillúboin	τῶν σιλλῠ́βων tôn sillúbōn
Dative	τῷ σιλλῠ́βῳ tôi sillúbōi	τοῖν σιλλῠ́βοιν toîn sillúboin	τοῖς σιλλῠ́βοις toîs sillúbois
Accusative	τὸ σίλλῠβον tò síllubon	τὼ σιλλῠ́βω tṑ sillúbō	τᾰ̀ σίλλῠβᾰ tà sílluba
Vocative	σίλλῠβον síllubon	σιλλῠ́βω sillúbō	σίλλῠβᾰ sílluba
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• σίλλυβα (sílluba)
• σίλλυβος (síllubos)

Descendants

• Latin: sillybus
• Translingual: Silybum

Further reading

• “σίλλυβον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σίλλυβον 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