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 • (kíbisis) f (genitive κῐβίσεως); third declension
- A pouch, a wallet, such as Perseus wore
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς; τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς hē kíbisis | τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kibísei | αἱ κῐβῐ́σεις hai kibíseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως tês kibíseōs | τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kibiséoin | τῶν κῐβῐ́σεων tôn kibíseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῐβῐ́σει têi kibísei | τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kibiséoin | ταῖς κῐβῐ́σεσῐ / κῐβῐ́σεσῐν taîs kibísesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῐ́βῐσῐν tḕn kíbisin | τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kibísei | τᾱ̀ς κῐβῐ́σεις tā̀s kibíseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῐ́βῐσῐ kíbisi | κῐβῐ́σει kibísei | κῐβῐ́σεις kibíseis | ||||||||||
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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