θῖβις
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- θίβη (thíbē)
- θίβῐς (thíbis)
- θίβωνος (thíbōnos)
- θίγωνος (thígōnos)
Etymology
A loan from Semitic. Compare Hebrew תֵּבָה (tebah, “ark, vessel”) and Egyptian dꜣbt (“box”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tʰí.bis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈtʰi.bis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.βis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈθi.vis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈθi.vis/
Noun
θῖβῐς • (thîbis) f (genitive θῑ́βεως); third declension
- A basket plaited from papyrus
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ θῖβῐς; τῆς θῑ́βεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ θῖβῐς hē thîbis | τὼ θῑ́βει tṑ thī́bei | αἱ θῑ́βεις hai thī́beis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς θῑ́βεως tês thī́beōs | τοῖν θῑβέοιν toîn thībéoin | τῶν θῑ́βεων tôn thī́beōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ θῑ́βει têi thī́bei | τοῖν θῑβέοιν toîn thībéoin | ταῖς θῑ́βεσῐ / θῑ́βεσῐν taîs thī́besi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν θῖβῐν tḕn thîbin | τὼ θῑ́βει tṑ thī́bei | τᾱ̀ς θῑ́βεις tā̀s thī́beis | ||||||||||
Vocative | θῖβῐ thîbi | θῑ́βει thī́bei | θῑ́βεις thī́beis | ||||||||||
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References
- θῖβις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- θῖβις 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