κύβηλις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Unexplained, but probably Pre-Greek.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ký.bɛː.lis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈky.be̝.lis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.βi.lis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈcy.vi.lis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.vi.lis/
Noun
κῠ́βηλῐς • (kúbēlis) f (genitive κῠβήλεως); third declension
- axe, cleaver, large knife with which cattle were slain
- Synonym: κοπίς (kopís)
Declension
Third declension of ἡ κῠ́βηλῐς; τῆς κῠβήλεως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ κῠ́βηλῐς hē kúbēlis | τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kubḗlei | αἱ κῠβήλεις hai kubḗleis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς κῠβήλεως tês kubḗleōs | τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kubēléoin | τῶν κῠβήλεων tôn kubḗleōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ κῠβήλει têi kubḗlei | τοῖν κῠβηλέοιν toîn kubēléoin | ταῖς κῠβήλεσῐ / κῠβήλεσῐν taîs kubḗlesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν κῠ́βηλῐν tḕn kúbēlin | τὼ κῠβήλει tṑ kubḗlei | τᾱ̀ς κῠβήλεις tā̀s kubḗleis | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῠ́βηλῐ kúbēli | κῠβήλει kubḗlei | κῠβήλεις kubḗleis | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- κυβηλίζω (kubēlízō)
- κυβηλικός (kubēlikós)
Further reading
- “κύβηλις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κύβηλις 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