καράβιον
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From κάραβος (kárabos, “a small boat”) + -ιον (-ion).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kaː.rá.bi.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kaˈra.bi.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /kaˈra.βi.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /kaˈra.vi.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /kaˈra.vi.on/
Noun
κᾱρᾰ́βῐον • (kārắbĭon) n (genitive κᾱρᾰβῐ́ον); second declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κᾱρᾰ́βῐον tò kārắbĭon |
τὼ κᾱρᾰβῐ́ω tṑ kārăbĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κᾱρᾰ́βῐᾰ tằ kārắbĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κᾱρᾰβῐ́ου toû kārăbĭ́ou |
τοῖν κᾱρᾰβῐ́οιν toîn kārăbĭ́oin |
τῶν κᾱρᾰβῐ́ων tôn kārăbĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κᾱρᾰβῐ́ῳ tōî kārăbĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κᾱρᾰβῐ́οιν toîn kārăbĭ́oin |
τοῖς κᾱρᾰβῐ́οις toîs kārăbĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κᾱρᾰ́βῐον tò kārắbĭon |
τὼ κᾱρᾰβῐ́ω tṑ kārăbĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κᾱρᾰ́βῐᾰ tằ kārắbĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κᾱρᾰ́βῐον kārắbĭon |
κᾱρᾰβῐ́ω kārăbĭ́ō |
κᾱρᾰ́βῐᾰ kārắbĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: καράβι (karávi)
- Mariupol Greek: кара́в (karáv), кара́ви (karávi), кара́вь (karávʹ)
- Pontic Greek: καράβι (karávi), καράβιν (karávin), καράβ’ (karáv’)
- → Laz: კარავი (ǩaravi)
- Tsakonian: καράβι (karávi), καράδι (karádi), καράιδι (karáidi), καβάβι (kavávi)
- → Aromanian: cãravi, cãrave, cãradi
- → Proto-Slavic: *korabľь (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “καράβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- καράβιν in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften