κωβιός
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, probably a loan from Pre-Greek. Furnée compares Akkadian 𒆪𒇥 (kuppū, “kind of fish”), suggesting a Semitic origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɔː.bi.ós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ko.biˈos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ko.βiˈos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ko.viˈos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ko.viˈos/
Noun
κωβῐός • (kōbiós) m (genitive κωβῐοῦ); second declension
- sort of fish of the gudgeon kind
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κωβῐός; τοῦ κωβῐοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κωβῐός ho kōbiós | τὼ κωβῐώ tṑ kōbiṓ | οἱ κωβῐοί hoi kōbioí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κωβῐοῦ toû kōbioû | τοῖν κωβῐοῖν toîn kōbioîn | τῶν κωβῐῶν tôn kōbiôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κωβῐῷ tôi kōbiôi | τοῖν κωβῐοῖν toîn kōbioîn | τοῖς κωβῐοῖς toîs kōbioîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κωβῐόν tòn kōbión | τὼ κωβῐώ tṑ kōbiṓ | τοὺς κωβῐούς toùs kōbioús | ||||||||||
Vocative | κωβῐέ kōbié | κωβῐώ kōbiṓ | κωβῐοί kōbioí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κωβίδον (kōbídon)
- κωβῖτις (kōbîtis)
- κωβιώδης (kōbiṓdēs)
Descendants
- → Latin: gōbius
- → Translingual: Gobius
Further reading
- “κωβιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κωβιός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κωβιός 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