ῥόβιλλος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Specht, related to Polish wróbel (“sparrow”). However, Beekes does not dismiss a Pre-Greek origin, in view of the suffix -ιλλ-.

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /r̥ó.bil.los/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈro.bil.los/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.βil.los/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈro.vil.los/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈro.vi.los/

Noun

ῥόβιλλος • (rhóbillos)

Hesychius gives the definition as: βασιλίσκος ὄρνις (basilískos órnis, literally “wren”).

Further reading

“ῥοβδεῖ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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
Hesychius' Lexicon: ρ

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