Κάβειροι

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unknown, though unlikely to be related to Sanskrit कुबेर (kubera, “god of riches and treasure”). The root of the name has been suggested to be the same as that in Κάβαρνοι (Kábarnoi, “priests of Demeter”), indicating a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ká.beː.roi̯/ → /ˈka.βi.ry/ → /ˈka.vi.ri/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ká.beː.roi̯/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈka.bi.ry/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.βi.ry/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vi.ry/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈka.vi.ri/

Noun

Κᾰ́βειροι • (Kábeiroi) m pl (genitive Κᾰβείρων); first declension

1. (Greek mythology) Cabeiri, a group of enigmatic chthonic deities worshipped especially in Samothrace, Lemnos and Boeotia

Inflection

Second declension of οἱ Κᾰ́βειροι; τῶν Κᾰβείρων (Attic)

Case / #	Plural
Nominative	οἱ Κᾰ́βειροι hoi Kábeiroi
Genitive	τῶν Κᾰβείρων tôn Kabeírōn
Dative	τοῖς Κᾰβείροις toîs Kabeírois
Accusative	τοὺς Κᾰβείρους toùs Kabeírous
Vocative	Κᾰ́βειροι Kábeiroi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• Κᾰβειρώ (Kabeirṓ)
• Κᾰβειρῐ́δες (Kabeirídes)
• Κᾰβειρῐκός (Kabeirikós)
• Κᾰβείρῐον (Kabeírion)
• Κᾰβείρῐᾰ (Kabeíria)
• Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ζομαι (Kabeiriázomai)
• Κᾰβειρῐᾰ́ς (Kabeiriás)
• Κᾰβειρῐ́ᾱ (Kabeiríā)

 

Descendants

• → English: Cabeiri
• → Latin: Cabīrī

Further reading

• “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Κάβειροι”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Κάβειροι 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