κῆβος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- κεῖπος (keîpos), κῆπος (kêpos)
Etymology
The Greek, but also the Latin variants, point to a Pre-Greek word. It was previously compared with Sanskrit कपि (kapi, “ape”) and Hebrew קוּף (qōf, “ape”) and assumed to be a loan from an unknown source.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /kɛ̂ː.bos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈke̝.bos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈci.βos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈci.vos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈci.vos/
Noun
κῆβος • (kêbos) m (genitive κήβου); second declension
- long-tailed monkey
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ κῆβος; τοῦ κήβου (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ κῆβος ho kêbos | τὼ κήβω tṑ kḗbō | οἱ κῆβοι hoi kêboi | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ κήβου toû kḗbou | τοῖν κήβοιν toîn kḗboin | τῶν κήβων tôn kḗbōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ κήβῳ tôi kḗbōi | τοῖν κήβοιν toîn kḗboin | τοῖς κήβοις toîs kḗbois | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν κῆβον tòn kêbon | τὼ κήβω tṑ kḗbō | τοὺς κήβους toùs kḗbous | ||||||||||
Vocative | κῆβε kêbe | κήβω kḗbō | κῆβοι kêboi | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Latin: cephus
- → Translingual: Cebus
Further reading
- “κῆβος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- κῆβος 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