κιννάβαρι
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κιννάβαρις (kinnábaris)
- τιγγάβαρι (tingábari), τυγγάβαρι (tungábari), τιγγάβαρυ (tingábaru), τιαγγάβαρι (tiangábari) – Attic
Etymology
According to Beekes, a foreign word, probably of Oriental origin.
Perhaps from Arabic زِنْجَفْر (zinjafr), related to Persian شنگرف (šangarf) from Old Persian 𐎿𐎡𐎣𐎲𐎽𐎢𐏁 (s-i-k-b-ru-u-š /sinkabruš/, “carnelian”) , of unknown origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kin.ná.ba.ri/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /kinˈna.ba.ri/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /cinˈna.βa.ri/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /cinˈna.va.ri/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ciˈna.va.ri/
Noun
κιννάβᾰρῐ • (kinnábari) n (genitive κιννᾰβάρεως); third declension
- cinnabar, bisulphuret of mercury
- Synonym: ψάδδα (psádda)
- vermilion
Inflection
Third declension of τὸ κιννᾰ́βᾰρῐ; τοῦ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ κιννᾰ́βᾰρῐ tò kinnábari | τὼ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρει tṑ kinnabárei | τᾰ̀ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρη / κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεᾰ tà kinnabárē / kinnabárea | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεως toû kinnabáreōs | τοῖν κιννᾰβᾰρέοιν toîn kinnabaréoin | τῶν κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεων tôn kinnabáreōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρει tôi kinnabárei | τοῖν κιννᾰβᾰρέοιν toîn kinnabaréoin | τοῖς κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεσῐ / κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεσῐν toîs kinnabáresi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ κιννᾰ́βᾰρῐ tò kinnábari | τὼ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρει tṑ kinnabárei | τᾰ̀ κιννᾰβᾰ́ρη / κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεᾰ tà kinnabárē / kinnabárea | ||||||||||
Vocative | κιννᾰ́βᾰρῐ kinnábari | κιννᾰβᾰ́ρει kinnabárei | κιννᾰβᾰ́ρη / κιννᾰβᾰ́ρεᾰ kinnabárē / kinnabárea | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κινναβαρίζω (kinnabarízō)
- κινναβάρινος (kinnabárinos)
- κινναβάριον (kinnabárion)
Descendants
- → Latin: cinnabaris (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- “κιννάβαρι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κιννάβαρι 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