Ὕβλων

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Ὕβλα (Húbla, “Hybla”) +‎ -ων (-ōn, possessive suffix). The suffix derives from Proto-Indo-European *-Hō, dubbed "Hoffmann's suffix", meaning "one who possesses X".

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hý.blɔːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)y.blon/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.βlon/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈy.vlon/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.vlon/

Proper noun

Ὕβλων • (Húblōn) m (genitive Ὕβλωνος); third declension

(Sicel hero) A Siculian chief of south-eastern Sicily, who founded the Hyblaean Megara.

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ Ὕβλων; τοῦ Ὕβλωνος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ Ὕβλων ho Húblōn	τὼ Ὕβλωνε tṑ Húblōne	οἱ Ὕβλωνες hoi Húblōnes
Genitive	τοῦ Ὕβλωνος toû Húblōnos	τοῖν Ὑβλώνοιν toîn Hublṓnoin	τῶν Ὑβλώνων tôn Hublṓnōn
Dative	τῷ Ὕβλωνῐ tôi Húblōni	τοῖν Ὑβλώνοιν toîn Hublṓnoin	τοῖς Ὕβλωσῐ / Ὕβλωσῐν toîs Húblōsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν Ὕβλωνᾰ tòn Húblōna	τὼ Ὕβλωνε tṑ Húblōne	τοὺς Ὕβλωνᾰς toùs Húblōnas
Vocative	Ὕβλων Húblōn	Ὕβλωνε Húblōne	Ὕβλωνες Húblōnes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

Greek: Ὕβλων (Húblōn), Ὕβλωνας (Húblōnas)
→ Latin: Hyblon
- French: Hyblon
- Galician: Hiblon
- Italian: Iblone
- Portuguese: Hiblão
- Spanish: Hiblón
- Czech: Hyblon
- Dutch: Hyblon
- English: Hyblon
- German: Hyblon
- Polish: Hyblon
- Russian: Хибло́н (Xiblón)
- Sicilian: Ibbluni

References

“Ὕβλων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Ὕβλων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ὕβλων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022

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