κενέβρεια
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, this looks like a Pre-Greek word, but he does not add any other information.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ke.né.breː.a/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /keˈne.bri.a/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ceˈne.βri.a/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ceˈne.vri.a/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ceˈne.vri.a/
Noun
κενέβρειᾰ • (kenébreia) n pl (genitive κενεβρείων); second declension
- carrion, carcass
Declension
Second declension of τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ; τῶν κενεβρείων (Attic)
Case / # | Plural | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ tà kenébreia | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τῶν κενεβρείων tôn kenebreíōn | ||||||||||||
Dative | τοῖς κενεβρείοις toîs kenebreíois | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τᾰ̀ κενέβρειᾰ tà kenébreia | ||||||||||||
Vocative | κενέβρειᾰ kenébreia | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “κενέβρειος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κενέβρεια 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