κιβώριον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably from Egyptian.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ki.bɔ̌ː.ri.on/ → /ciˈβo.ri.on/ → /ciˈvo.ri.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ki.bɔ̌ː.ri.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kiˈbo.ri.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ciˈβo.ri.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ciˈvo.ri.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈvo.ri.on/

Noun

κῐβώρῐον • (kibṓrion) n (genitive κῐβωρίου); second declension

1. (botany) The seed vessel of the Egyptian water-lily
2. A cup used liturgically

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῐβώρῐον; τοῦ κῐβωρῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐβώρῐον tò kibṓrion	τὼ κῐβωρῐ́ω tṑ kibōríō	τᾰ̀ κῐβώρῐᾰ tà kibṓria
Genitive	τοῦ κῐβωρῐ́ου toû kibōríou	τοῖν κῐβωρῐ́οιν toîn kibōríoin	τῶν κῐβωρῐ́ων tôn kibōríōn
Dative	τῷ κῐβωρῐ́ῳ tôi kibōríōi	τοῖν κῐβωρῐ́οιν toîn kibōríoin	τοῖς κῐβωρῐ́οις toîs kibōríois
Accusative	τὸ κῐβώρῐον tò kibṓrion	τὼ κῐβωρῐ́ω tṑ kibōríō	τᾰ̀ κῐβώρῐᾰ tà kibṓria
Vocative	κῐβώρῐον kibṓrion	κῐβωρῐ́ω kibōríō	κῐβώρῐᾰ kibṓria
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cibōrium

Further reading

• “κιβώριον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κιβώριον 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