λίβανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
 

Noun

λίβανος • (líbanos) m or f (genitive λίβανου); second declension

  1. frankincense
  2. (by extension) frankincense tree

Declension
Second declension of ὁ, ἡ λίβανος; τοῦ, τῆς λιβάνου (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ, ἡ λίβανος
ho, hē líbanos		 τὼ λιβάνω
tṑ libánō		 οἱ, αἱ λίβανοι
hoi, hai líbanoi
Genitive τοῦ, τῆς λιβάνου
toû, tês libánou		 τοῖν λιβάνοιν
toîn libánoin		 τῶν λιβάνων
tôn libánōn
Dative τῷ, τῇ λιβάνῳ
tôi, têi libánōi		 τοῖν λιβάνοιν
toîn libánoin		 τοῖς, ταῖς λιβάνοις
toîs, taîs libánois
Accusative τὸν, τὴν λίβανον
tòn, tḕn líbanon		 τὼ λιβάνω
tṑ libánō		 τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς λιβάνους
toùs, tā̀s libánous
Vocative λίβανε
líbane		 λιβάνω
libánō		 λίβανοι
líbanoi
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

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Further reading
  • “λίβανος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λίβανος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 860
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