σύβας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
A connection with Latin subō (“I am on heat”) has no plausibility. Several glosses can be compared, like σύβακα (súbaka, “swinish”), συβάλλας (subállas, “prone to sexual pleasures”), ὑβάλλης (hubállēs, “lecherous”). According to Beekes, all these words are probably from the same Pre-Greek root.
Pronunciation
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈsy.bas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.βas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈsy.vas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈsi.vas/
Adjective
σύβας • (súbas)
- Hesychius' gives the definition as: λάγνος (lágnos, “lecherous”).
References
- σύβας 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
- Hesychius' Lexicon: σ