Strabo

See also: strabo

English

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Strabo

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Etymology

From Latin Strabō, from Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn).

Proper noun

Strabo

1. (63/64 B.C.E. – ca. 24 C.E.) Ancient Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian from Amaseia in Pontus.

Related terms

• Strabonian
• Strabonic

Translations

geographer, philosopher, and historian

Albanian: Straboni Arabic: سترابو Armenian: Ստրաբոն (Strabon) Catalan: Estrabó m French: Strabon (fr) m Middle French: Strabon m Galician: Estrabón (gl) Greek: Στράβων (el) m (Strávon) Ancient: Στράβων m (Strábōn) Italian: Strabone m Latin: Strabō m Occitan: Estrabon m Portuguese: Estrabão m, Estrabo m Romanian: Strabon Russian: Страбо́н (ru) m (Strabón) Sicilian: Strabbuni Spanish: Estrabón m

Anagrams

• Barots, Bartos, Bators, Botsra, STOBAR, Tobars, aborts, boarts, broast, rabots, tabors

Latin

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

Strabo

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Etymology

From strabō (“person with cross-eyes or distorted eyes; squinter; jealous person”). Also used as a calque of Ancient Greek Στρᾰ́βων (Strắbōn), from στραβός (strabós) of identical sense.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈstra.boː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈstraː.bo]

Proper noun

Strabō m sg (genitive Strabōnis); third declension

1. Strabo, a prominent Romano-Greek geographer and historian from Pontus in Asia Minor

   Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII

   Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics

2. a cognomen and agnomen used by the gens Fannia and others

   Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Strabō
genitive	Strabōnis
dative	Strabōnī
accusative	Strabōnem
ablative	Strabōne
vocative	Strabō

Descendants

Descendants

• Catalan: Estrabó
• Galician: Estrabón
• Italian: Strabone
• Middle French: Strabon
  • French: Strabon
• Occitan: Estrabon
• Portuguese: Estrabão, Estrabo
• Romanian: Strabon
• Sicilian: Strabbuni
• Spanish: Estrabón
• → Albanian: Straboni
• → English: Strabo

References

• “Străbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “2 Străbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The Geography of Strabo, 2014.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.
• Duane Roller, A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, 2018, p. 307.