κῆβος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κεῖπος (keîpos), κῆπος (kêpos)

Etymology

The Greek, but also the Latin variants, point to a Pre-Greek word. It was previously compared with Sanskrit कपि (kapi, “ape”) and Hebrew קוּף (qōf, “ape”) and assumed to be a loan from an unknown source.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.bos/ → /ˈci.βos/ → /ˈci.vos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kɛ̂ː.bos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈke̝.bos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.βos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vos/

Noun

κῆβος • (kêbos) m (genitive κήβου); second declension

1. long-tailed monkey

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῆβος; τοῦ κήβου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῆβος ho kêbos	τὼ κήβω tṑ kḗbō	οἱ κῆβοι hoi kêboi
Genitive	τοῦ κήβου toû kḗbou	τοῖν κήβοιν toîn kḗboin	τῶν κήβων tôn kḗbōn
Dative	τῷ κήβῳ tôi kḗbōi	τοῖν κήβοιν toîn kḗboin	τοῖς κήβοις toîs kḗbois
Accusative	τὸν κῆβον tòn kêbon	τὼ κήβω tṑ kḗbō	τοὺς κήβους toùs kḗbous
Vocative	κῆβε kêbe	κήβω kḗbō	κῆβοι kêboi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• → Latin: cephus
• → Translingual: Cebus

Further reading

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