κίβισις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek and related to κιβωτός (kibōtós, “wooden box”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kí.bi.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈki.bi.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.βi.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/
Noun
κίβῐσῐς • (kíbĭsĭs) f (genitive κῐβίσεως); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς hē kĭ́bĭsĭs |
τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kĭbĭ́sei |
αἱ κῐβῐ́σεις hai kĭbĭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως tês kĭbĭ́seōs |
τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kĭbĭséoin |
τῶν κῐβῐ́σεων tôn kĭbĭ́seōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ κῐβῐ́σει tēî kĭbĭ́sei |
τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kĭbĭséoin |
ταῖς κῐβῐ́σεσῐ / κῐβῐ́σεσῐν taîs kĭbĭ́sesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν κῐ́βῐσῐν tḕn kĭ́bĭsĭn |
τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kĭbĭ́sei |
τᾱ̀ς κῐβῐ́σεις tā̀s kĭbĭ́seis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐ́βῐσῐ kĭ́bĭsĭ |
κῐβῐ́σει kĭbĭ́sei |
κῐβῐ́σεις kĭbĭ́seis | ||||||||||
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Synonyms
- πήρα (pḗra)
Further reading
- “κίβισις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κίβισις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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