λάβραξ

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From λάβρος (lábros, “furious, fierce”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λάβραξ • (lábrax) m (genitive λάβρᾱκος); third declension

  1. European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

Inflection
Third declension of ὁ λάβρᾱξ; τοῦ λάβρᾱκος (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ λάβρᾱξ
ho lábrāx		 τὼ λάβρᾱκε
tṑ lábrāke		 οἱ λάβρᾱκες
hoi lábrākes
Genitive τοῦ λάβρᾱκος
toû lábrākos		 τοῖν λαβρᾱ́κοιν
toîn labrā́koin		 τῶν λαβρᾱ́κων
tôn labrā́kōn
Dative τῷ λάβρᾱκῐ
tôi lábrāki		 τοῖν λαβρᾱ́κοιν
toîn labrā́koin		 τοῖς λάβρᾱξῐ / λάβρᾱξῐν
toîs lábrāxi(n)
Accusative τὸν λάβρᾱκᾰ
tòn lábrāka		 τὼ λάβρᾱκε
tṑ lábrāke		 τοὺς λάβρᾱκᾰς
toùs lábrākas
Vocative λάβρᾱξ
lábrāx		 λάβρᾱκε
lábrāke		 λάβρᾱκες
lábrākes
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms
  • λαβράκιον (labrákion)

Descendants
  • Latin: Labrax

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