ὄροβος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a Mediterranean substrate borrowing, and likely related to ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos, “chickpea”). Compare Proto-Germanic *arwīts, Latin ervum.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ó.ro.bos/ → /ˈo.ro.βos/ → /ˈo.ro.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ó.ro.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈo.ro.vos/

Noun

ὄροβος • (órobos) m (genitive ὀρόβου); second declension

1. bitter vetch (Vicia ervilia).

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ ὄροβος; τοῦ ὀρόβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ὄροβος ho órobos	τὼ ὀρόβω tṑ oróbō	οἱ ὄροβοι hoi óroboi
Genitive	τοῦ ὀρόβου toû oróbou	τοῖν ὀρόβοιν toîn oróboin	τῶν ὀρόβων tôn oróbōn
Dative	τῷ ὀρόβῳ tōî oróbōi	τοῖν ὀρόβοιν toîn oróboin	τοῖς ὀρόβοις toîs oróbois
Accusative	τὸν ὄροβον tòn órobon	τὼ ὀρόβω tṑ oróbō	τοὺς ὀρόβους toùs oróbous
Vocative	ὄροβε órobe	ὀρόβω oróbō	ὄροβοι óroboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• ὀροβάγχη (orobánkhē)
• ὀρόβινος (oróbinos)

Related terms

• ἐρέβινθος (erébinthos)

References

• “ὄροβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὄροβος 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.
  • vetch idem, page 949.
• 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