βομβυλιός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From the same onomatopoeic source of βόμβος (bómbos, “buzzing, humming”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bom.by.li.ós/ → /βom.by.liˈos/ → /vom.bi.liˈos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bom.by.li.ós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /bom.by.liˈos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βom.by.liˈos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /vom.by.liˈos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /vom.bi.liˈos/

Noun

βομβῠλῐός • (bombuliós) m (genitive βομβῠλῐοῦ); second declension

1. buzzing insect, especially the bumblebee

   Synonym: βέμβῐξ (bémbix)

2. cocoon of the silkworm
3. narrow-necked vessel, that gurgles in pouring

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ βομβῠλῐός; τοῦ βομβῠλῐοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ βομβῠλῐός ho bombuliós	τὼ βομβῠλῐώ tṑ bombuliṓ	οἱ βομβῠλῐοί hoi bombulioí
Genitive	τοῦ βομβῠλῐοῦ toû bombulioû	τοῖν βομβῠλῐοῖν toîn bombulioîn	τῶν βομβῠλῐῶν tôn bombuliôn
Dative	τῷ βομβῠλῐῷ tôi bombuliôi	τοῖν βομβῠλῐοῖν toîn bombulioîn	τοῖς βομβῠλῐοῖς toîs bombulioîs
Accusative	τὸν βομβῠλῐόν tòn bombulión	τὼ βομβῠλῐώ tṑ bombuliṓ	τοὺς βομβῠλῐούς toùs bombulioús
Vocative	βομβῠλῐέ bombulié	βομβῠλῐώ bombuliṓ	βομβῠλῐοί bombulioí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “βομβυλιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• βομβυλιός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βομβυλιός in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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