Λίβανος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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
 

Proper noun

Λίβᾰνος • (Líbanos) m (genitive Λιβᾰ́νου); second declension

  1. Lebanon, Mount Lebanon (a mountain range in the country of Lebanon, Western Asia)

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ Λίβᾰνος; τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Λίβᾰνος
ho Líbanos
Genitive τοῦ Λιβᾰ́νου
toû Libánou
Dative τῷ Λιβᾰ́νῳ
tôi Libánōi
Accusative τὸν Λίβᾰνον
tòn Líbanon
Vocative Λίβᾰνε
Líbane
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

References
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,015

Greek

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈli.va.nos/

Proper noun

Λίβανος • (Lívanos) m

  1. Lebanon (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East)

Declension
  Λίβανος
case     \     number singular
nominative Λίβανος •
genitive Λιβάνου •
accusative Λίβανο •
vocative Λίβανε •

Further reading
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