κίβισις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

According to Beekes, from Pre-Greek and related to κιβωτός (kibōtós, “wooden box”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kí.bi.sis/ → /ˈci.βi.sis/ → /ˈci.vi.sis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kí.bi.sis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈki.bi.sis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.βi.sis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈci.vi.sis/

Noun

κίβῐσῐς • (kíbisis) f (genitive κῐβίσεως); third declension

1. A pouch, a wallet, such as Perseus wore

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς; τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ κῐ́βῐσῐς hē kíbisis	τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kibísei	αἱ κῐβῐ́σεις hai kibíseis
Genitive	τῆς κῐβῐ́σεως tês kibíseōs	τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kibiséoin	τῶν κῐβῐ́σεων tôn kibíseōn
Dative	τῇ κῐβῐ́σει têi kibísei	τοῖν κῐβῐσέοιν toîn kibiséoin	ταῖς κῐβῐ́σεσῐ / κῐβῐ́σεσῐν taîs kibísesi(n)
Accusative	τὴν κῐ́βῐσῐν tḕn kíbisin	τὼ κῐβῐ́σει tṑ kibísei	τᾱ̀ς κῐβῐ́σεις tā̀s kibíseis
Vocative	κῐ́βῐσῐ kíbisi	κῐβῐ́σει kibísei	κῐβῐ́σεις kibíseis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• πήρα (pḗra)

Further reading

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