τήβεννα
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- τήβεννος (tḗbennos)
Etymology
In antiquity, the word was derived from the Arcadian personal names Τήμενος (Tḗmenos) or Τήβεννος (Tḗbennos). Furnée showed that the word is Pre-Greek in view of the variations "β/μ" and "ν/νν".
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /tɛ̌ː.ben.na/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈte̝.ben.na/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈti.βen.na/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈti.ven.na/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈti.ve.na/
Noun
τήβεννᾰ • (tḗbenna) f (genitive τηβέννης); first declension
- garment of a distinguished person similar to a toga
Inflection
First declension of ἡ τήβεννᾰ; τῆς τηβέννης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ τήβεννᾰ hē tḗbenna | τὼ τηβέννᾱ tṑ tēbénnā | αἱ τήβενναι hai tḗbennai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς τηβέννης tês tēbénnēs | τοῖν τηβένναιν toîn tēbénnain | τῶν τηβεννῶν tôn tēbennôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ τηβέννῃ têi tēbénnēi | τοῖν τηβένναιν toîn tēbénnain | ταῖς τηβένναις taîs tēbénnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν τήβεννᾰν tḕn tḗbennan | τὼ τηβέννᾱ tṑ tēbénnā | τᾱ̀ς τηβέννᾱς tā̀s tēbénnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | τήβεννᾰ tḗbenna | τηβέννᾱ tēbénnā | τήβενναι tḗbennai | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- τηβέννειος (tēbénneios)
- τηβεννικός (tēbennikós)
- τηβεννίς (tēbennís)
- τηβεννοφορέω (tēbennophoréō)
Further reading
- “τήβεννα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- τήβεννα 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