κελέβη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably of Pre-Greek origin. It has also been connected with κάλπις (kálpis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.lé.bɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /keˈle.be̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ceˈle.βi/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈle.vi/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈle.vi/
Noun
κελέβη • (kelébē) f (genitive κελέβης); first declension
- A cup, a jar
Inflection
First declension of ἡ κελέβη; τῆς κελέβης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κελέβη hē kelébē | τὼ κελέβᾱ tṑ kelébā | αἱ κελέβαι hai kelébai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κελέβης tês kelébēs | τοῖν κελέβαιν toîn kelébain | τῶν κελεβῶν tôn kelebôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κελέβῃ têi kelébēi | τοῖν κελέβαιν toîn kelébain | ταῖς κελέβαις taîs kelébais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κελέβην tḕn kelébēn | τὼ κελέβᾱ tṑ kelébā | τᾱ̀ς κελέβᾱς tā̀s kelébās | ||||||||||
Vocative | κελέβη kelébē | κελέβᾱ kelébā | κελέβαι kelébai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κελέβειον (kelébeion)
Descendants
- → English: kelebe
Further reading
- “κελέβη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κελέβη 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