ἥβη

See also: Ἥβη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yēgʷeh₂ (“power, (youthful) strength”). Cognate with Latvian jēga.^[1]

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.bɛː/ → /ˈi.βi/ → /ˈi.vi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /hɛ̌ː.bɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈ(h)e̝.be̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.βi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈi.vi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈi.vi/

Noun

ἥβη • (hḗbē) f (genitive ἥβης); first declension

1. youth
2. vigour
3. pubes

Declension

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἥβη hē hḗbē	τὼ ἥβᾱ tṑ hḗbā	αἱ ἧβαι hai hêbai
Genitive	τῆς ἥβης tês hḗbēs	τοῖν ἥβαιν toîn hḗbain	τῶν ἡβῶν tôn hēbôn
Dative	τῇ ἥβῃ têi hḗbēi	τοῖν ἥβαιν toîn hḗbain	ταῖς ἥβαις taîs hḗbais
Accusative	τὴν ἥβην tḕn hḗbēn	τὼ ἥβᾱ tṑ hḗbā	τᾱ̀ς ἥβᾱς tā̀s hḗbās
Vocative	ἥβη hḗbē	ἥβᾱ hḗbā	ἧβαι hêbai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

First declension of ἡ ἥβη; τῆς ἥβης (Attic)

Derived terms

• ἔφηβος (éphēbos)

Descendants

• Greek: ήβη (ívi)

References

1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “jēga”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Further reading

• “ἥβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἥβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἥβη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἥβη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἥβη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,012