κίβδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to κίβδηλος (kíbdēlos, “fraudulent; fake, sham”), which see for the Semitic origin, through the idea of gold being adulterated by being made an alloy.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kíb.dos/ → /ˈciβ.ðos/ → /ˈciv.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kíb.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkib.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈciβ.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈciv.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈciv.ðos/

Noun

κίβδος • (kíbdos) m (genitive κίβδου); second declension

1. dross or alloy of gold

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́βδος; τοῦ κῐ́βδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́βδος ho kíbdos	τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kíbdō	οἱ κῐ́βδοι hoi kíbdoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́βδου toû kíbdou	τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kíbdoin	τῶν κῐ́βδων tôn kíbdōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́βδῳ tôi kíbdōi	τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kíbdoin	τοῖς κῐ́βδοις toîs kíbdois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́βδον tòn kíbdon	τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kíbdō	τοὺς κῐ́βδους toùs kíbdous
Vocative	κῐ́βδε kíbde	κῐ́βδω kíbdō	κῐ́βδοι kíbdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

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