κουβαρίς
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained. Perhaps related to Greek κουβάρι (kouvári, “clew”) and sharing the meaning of "something that rolls itself together".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /koː.ba.rís/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ku.baˈris/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ku.βaˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ku.vaˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ku.vaˈris/
Noun
κουβᾰρῐ́ς • (koubarís) f (genitive κουβᾰρῐ́δος); third declension
- woodlouse
- Synonym: ὀνίσκος (onískos)
Inflection
Third declension of ἡ κουβᾰρῐ́ς; τῆς κουβᾰρῐ́δος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κουβᾰρῐ́ς hē koubarís | τὼ κουβᾰρῐ́δε tṑ koubaríde | αἱ κουβᾰρῐ́δες hai koubarídes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κουβᾰρῐ́δος tês koubarídos | τοῖν κουβᾰρῐ́δοιν toîn koubarídoin | τῶν κουβᾰρῐ́δων tôn koubarídōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κουβᾰρῐ́δῐ têi koubarídi | κουβᾰρῐ́δοιν koubarídoin | ταῖς κουβᾰρῐ́σῐ / κουβᾰρῐ́σῐν taîs koubarísi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κουβᾰρῐ́δᾰ tḕn koubarída | κουβᾰρῐ́δε koubaríde | τᾱ̀ς κουβᾰρῐ́δᾰς tā̀s koubarídas | ||||||||||
Vocative | κουβᾰρῐ́ς koubarís | κουβᾰρῐ́δε koubaríde | κουβᾰρῐ́δες koubarídes | ||||||||||
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References
- κουβαρίς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 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