κιβώριον
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably from Egyptian.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ki.bɔ̌ː.ri.on/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kiˈbo.ri.on/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ciˈβo.ri.on/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ciˈvo.ri.on/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈvo.ri.on/
Noun
κῐβώρῐον • (kĭbṓrĭon) n (genitive κῐβωρίου); second declension
- (botany) The seed vessel of the Egyptian water-lily
- A cup used liturgically
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | τὸ κῐβώρῐον tò kĭbṓrĭon |
τὼ κῐβωρῐ́ω tṑ kĭbōrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κῐβώρῐᾰ tằ kĭbṓrĭă | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ κῐβωρῐ́ου toû kĭbōrĭ́ou |
τοῖν κῐβωρῐ́οιν toîn kĭbōrĭ́oin |
τῶν κῐβωρῐ́ων tôn kĭbōrĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ κῐβωρῐ́ῳ tōî kĭbōrĭ́ōi |
τοῖν κῐβωρῐ́οιν toîn kĭbōrĭ́oin |
τοῖς κῐβωρῐ́οις toîs kĭbōrĭ́ois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸ κῐβώρῐον tò kĭbṓrĭon |
τὼ κῐβωρῐ́ω tṑ kĭbōrĭ́ō |
τᾰ̀ κῐβώρῐᾰ tằ kĭbṓrĭă | ||||||||||
| Vocative | κῐβώρῐον kĭbṓrĭon |
κῐβωρῐ́ω kĭbōrĭ́ō |
κῐβώρῐᾰ kĭbṓrĭă | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: cibōrium
Further reading
- “κιβώριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιβώριον 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