λέβης
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From λείβω.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /lé.bɛːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈle.be̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈle.βis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈle.vis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈle.vis/
Noun
λέβης • (lébēs) m (genitive λέβητος); third declension
- kettle, cauldron
- Synonym: δευτήρ (deutḗr)
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ λέβης; τοῦ λέβητος (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ λέβης ho lébēs | τὼ λέβητε tṑ lébēte | οἱ λέβητες hoi lébētes | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ λέβητος toû lébētos | τοῖν λεβήτοιν toîn lebḗtoin | τῶν λεβήτων tôn lebḗtōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ λέβητῐ tôi lébēti | τοῖν λεβήτοιν toîn lebḗtoin | τοῖς λέβησῐ / λέβησῐν toîs lébēsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν λέβητᾰ tòn lébēta | τὼ λέβητε tṑ lébēte | τοὺς λέβητᾰς toùs lébētas | ||||||||||
Vocative | λέβης lébēs | λέβητε lébēte | λέβητες lébētes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἰπνολέβης (ipnolébēs)
- λεβητάριον (lebētárion)
- λεβητίζω (lebētízō)
- λεβήτιον (lebḗtion)
- λεβητίσκος (lebētískos)
- λεβητώδης (lebētṓdēs)
Descendants
- ⇒ Greek: λέβητας (lévitas)
- → Latin: lebēs
Further reading
- “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “λέβης”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “λέβης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- λέβης in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- λέβης in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “λέβης”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- box idem, page 92.
- caldron idem, page 108.
- casket idem, page 116.
- chest idem, page 129.
- cinerary urn idem, page 132.
- kettle idem, page 468.
- pot idem, page 629.
- urn idem, page 940.
- 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