Λιβύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Homeric toponym (Odyssey IX.95, XXIII.311).

From Λῐ́βῠς (Líbus) +‎ -η (-ē), from the name of the Libu, a tribal people of North Africa, attested in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th century BC as rbw

and as 𐤋𐤁𐤉 (lby) in later Punic inscriptions.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /li.bý.ɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /liˈby.e̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /liˈβy.i/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /liˈvy.i/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /liˈvi.i/

Proper noun

Λῐβῠ́η • (Libúē) f (genitive Λῐβῠ́ης); first declension

North Africa
Northwestern Africa

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Λῐβῠ́η; τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Λῐβῠ́η hē Libúē
Genitive	τῆς Λῐβῠ́ης tês Libúēs
Dative	τῇ Λῐβῠ́ῃ têi Libúēi
Accusative	τὴν Λῐβῠ́ην tḕn Libúēn
Vocative	Λῐβῠ́η Libúē
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

→ Afrikaans: Libië
→ Albanian: Libia
→ Alemannic German: Libyen
→ Amharic: ሊቢያ (libiya)
→ Arabic: لِيبِيَا (lībiyā)
→ Aragonese: Libia
→ Aramaic: ܠܘܒܐ
→ Armenian: Լիբիա (Libia)
→ Asturian: Libia
→ Azerbaijani: Liviya
→ Bambara: Libya
→ Basque: Libia
→ Belarusian: Лівія (Livija), (Taraškievica orthography) Лібія (Libija)
→ Bengali: লিবিয়া (libiẏa)
→ Bishnupriya Manipuri: লিবিয়া
→ Breton: Libia
→ Bulgarian: Либия (Libija)
→ Catalan: Libia
→ Cebuano: Libya
→ Cornish: Libi
→ Crimean Tatar: Libiya
→ Czech: Libye
→ Danish: Libyen
→ Dutch: Libië
→ English: Libya
→ Esperanto: Libio
→ Estonian: Liibüa
→ Finnish: Libya
→ Franco-Provençal: Libie
→ French: Libye
→ Galician: Libia
→ Georgian: ლიბია (libia)
→ German: Libyen
Greek: Λιβύη (Livýi)
→ Haitian Creole: Libi
→ Hindi: लीबिया (lībiyā)
→ Hungarian: Líbia
→ Icelandic: Líbýa, Líbía
→ Ido: Libia
→ Ilocano: Libya
→ Indonesian: Libya
→ Italian: Libia
→ Japanese: リビア (Ribia)
→ Javanese: Libya
→ Kabyle: Libya
→ Kannada: ಲಿಬ್ಯಾ (libyā)
→ Kapampangan: Libya
→ Kazakh: Либия (Libiä)
→ Korean: 리비아 (Ribia)
→ Northern Kurdish: Lîbya
→ Latin: Libya
→ Latvian: Lībija
→ Ligurian: Libia
→ Lingala: Libîya
→ Lithuanian: Libija
→ Lojban: libgu'e
→ Lower Sorbian: Libyska
→ Low German: Libyen
→ Luxembourgish: Libyen
→ Macedonian: Либија (Libija)
→ Malayalam: ലിബിയ (libiya)
→ Malay: Libya
→ Manx: Yn Leeb
→ Marathi: लिबिया (libiyā)
→ Neapolitan: Libbia
→ Norwegian: Libya
→ Novial: Libia
→ Occitan: Libia
→ Old English: Libia
→ Ossetian: Ливи (Livi)
→ Pashto: ليبيا
→ Persian: لیبی
→ Piedmontese: Libia
→ Polish: Libia
→ Portuguese: Líbia
→ Quechua: Libya
→ Romanian: Libia
→ Russian: Ливия (Livija)
→ Samogitian: Lėbėjė
→ Sanskrit: लिबिया (libiyā)
→ Scottish Gaelic: Libia
→ Serbo-Croatian: Либија, Libija
→ Sicilian: Libbia
→ Slovak: Líbya
→ Slovene: Libija
→ Somali: Libya
→ Spanish: Libia
→ Swahili: Libya
→ Swedish: Libyen
→ Tagalog: Libya
→ Tajik: Либия (Libiya)
→ Tamil: லிபியா (lipiyā)
→ Thai: ประเทศลิเบีย
→ Tibetan: ལིའི་པི་ཡ (li'i pi ya)
→ Tsonga: Libya
→ Turkish: Libya
→ Ukrainian: Лівія (Livija)
→ Upper Sorbian: Libyska
→ Urdu: لیبیا (lībiyā)
→ Uzbek: Liviya
→ Venetian: Łibia
→ Vietnamese: Libya
→ Volapük: Lübän
→ Welsh: Libya
→ West Frisian: Lybje
→ Wolof: Libi
→ Yiddish: ליביע (libye)
→ Zazaki: Libya

References

“Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Λιβύη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“Λιβύη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G3033 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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): /liˈvi.i/

Proper noun

Λιβύη • (Livýi) f

Libya (a country in North Africa)

Declension

Λιβύη

case \ number	singular
nominative	Λιβύη •
genitive	Λιβύης •
accusative	Λιβύη •
vocative	Λιβύη •

Related terms

Λίβυα f (Lívya, “Libyan”)
Λίβυος m (Lívyos, “Libyan”)
λιβυκός (livykós, “Libyan”, adjective)

Λιβύη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Inflection

Descendants

References

Greek

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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