κίβδος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Related to κίβδηλος (kíbdēlos, “fraudulent; fake, sham”), which see for the Semitic origin, through the idea of gold being adulterated by being made an alloy.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kíb.dos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈkib.dos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈciβ.ðos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈciv.ðos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈciv.ðos/
Noun
κίβδος • (kíbdos) m (genitive κίβδου); second declension
- dross or alloy of gold
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῐ́βδος; τοῦ κῐ́βδου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῐ́βδος ho kíbdos | τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kíbdō | οἱ κῐ́βδοι hoi kíbdoi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κῐ́βδου toû kíbdou | τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kíbdoin | τῶν κῐ́βδων tôn kíbdōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κῐ́βδῳ tôi kíbdōi | τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kíbdoin | τοῖς κῐ́βδοις toîs kíbdois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῐ́βδον tòn kíbdon | τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kíbdō | τοὺς κῐ́βδους toùs kíbdous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́βδε kíbde | κῐ́βδω kíbdō | κῐ́βδοι kíbdoi | ||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κίβδος 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