# 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

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

### Proper noun

Λῐβῠ́η • (Libúē) f (genitive Λῐβῠ́ης); first declension
* North Africa
* Northwestern Africa

#### 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
* → 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
* → 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: /liˈvi.i/

### Proper noun

Λιβύη • (Livýi) f
* Libya (a country in North Africa)

#### Declension

| 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)

### Further reading

* Λιβύη on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$