κιβωτός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Uncertain, but probably from . Has been connected with κίβισις (kíbisis, “sack”) and Latin cibus (“food”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/ → /ci.βoˈtos/ → /ci.voˈtos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kiː.bɔː.tós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ki.boˈtos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ci.βoˈtos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ci.voˈtos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ci.voˈtos/

Noun

κῑβωτός • (kībōtós) f (genitive κῑβωτοῦ); second declension

1. wooden box, chest, coffer
   • 424 BCE, Aristophanes, The Knights 1000
   • 422 BCE, Aristophanes, The Wasps 1056
   • Inscriptiones Graecae 150B.22

Inflection

Second declension of ἡ κῑβωτός; τῆς κῑβωτοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῑβωτός hē kībōtós	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	αἱ κῑβωτοί hai kībōtoí
Genitive	τῆς κῑβωτοῦ tês kībōtoû	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	τῶν κῑβωτῶν tôn kībōtôn
Dative	τῇ κῑβωτῷ têi kībōtôi	τοῖν κῑβωτοῖν toîn kībōtoîn	ταῖς κῑβωτοῖς taîs kībōtoîs
Accusative	τὴν κῑβωτόν tḕn kībōtón	τὼ κῑβωτώ tṑ kībōtṓ	τᾱ̀ς κῑβωτούς tā̀s kībōtoús
Vocative	κῑβωτέ kībōté	κῑβωτώ kībōtṓ	κῑβωτοί kībōtoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κιβώτιον (kibṓtion)
• κιβωτίδιον (kibōtídion)
• κιβωτάριον (kibōtárion)

References

• “κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κιβωτός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κιβωτός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2787 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • box idem, page 92.
  • chest idem, page 129.
• 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

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Greek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ci.voˈtos/
• Hyphenation: κι‧βω‧τός

Noun

κιβωτός • (kivotós) f (plural κιβωτοί)

1. preserver

Declension

Declension of κιβωτός

	singular	plural
nominative	κιβωτός •	κιβωτοί •
genitive	κιβωτού •	κιβωτών •
accusative	κιβωτό •	κιβωτούς •
vocative	κιβωτέ •,  κιβωτό •	κιβωτοί •

Derived terms

• Κιβωτός του Νώε f (Kivotós tou Nóe, “Noah's Ark”)
• Κιβωτός της Διαθήκης f (Kivotós tis Diathíkis, “Ark of the Covenant”)

Related terms

• κιβώτιο n (kivótio, “box, container”)
• εγκιβωτίζω (egkivotízo)

Further reading

• κιβωτός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el