κότταβος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κόσσαβος (kóssabos) — Attic

Etymology

Formally, it has been compared with κοττίς (kottís, “back of the head”), κόττειν (kóttein, “to hit, stamp”) and κόττος (kóttos, “cube”). The variation "ττ/σσ" points to a Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kót.ta.bos/ → /ˈkot.ta.βos/ → /ˈko.ta.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kót.ta.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkot.ta.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈkot.ta.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈkot.ta.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈko.ta.vos/

Noun

κόττᾰβος • (kóttabos) m (genitive κοττάβου); second declension

1. cottabus

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κόττᾰβος; τοῦ κοττᾰ́βου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κόττᾰβος ho kóttabos	τὼ κοττᾰ́βω tṑ kottábō	οἱ κόττᾰβοι hoi kóttaboi
Genitive	τοῦ κοττᾰ́βου toû kottábou	τοῖν κοττᾰ́βοιν toîn kottáboin	τῶν κοττᾰ́βων tôn kottábōn
Dative	τῷ κοττᾰ́βῳ tôi kottábōi	τοῖν κοττᾰ́βοιν toîn kottáboin	τοῖς κοττᾰ́βοις toîs kottábois
Accusative	τὸν κόττᾰβον tòn kóttabon	τὼ κοττᾰ́βω tṑ kottábō	τοὺς κοττᾰ́βους toùs kottábous
Vocative	κόττᾰβε kóttabe	κοττᾰ́βω kottábō	κόττᾰβοι kóttaboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• κοτταβεῖον (kottabeîon)
• κοτταβία (kottabía)
• κοτταβίζω (kottabízō)
• κοτταβικός (kottabikós)
• κοττάβιον (kottábion)
• κοτταβίς (kottabís)
• κοττάβισις (kottábisis)
• κοτταβισμός (kottabismós)

 

Descendants

• English: cottabus

Further reading

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