κισσύβιον

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• κισσύφιον (kissúphion)

Etymology

The ancients connected the word with κισσός (kissós, “ivy”), either after the material or after the ornamentation resembling ivy leaves. According to Beekes, the word is Pre-Greek, because of the variation β/φ.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kis.sý.bi.on/ → /cisˈsy.βi.on/ → /ciˈsi.vi.on/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kis.sý.bi.on/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /kisˈsy.bi.on/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /cisˈsy.βi.on/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /cisˈsy.vi.on/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ciˈsi.vi.on/

Noun

κῐσσῠ́βῐον • (kissúbion) n (genitive κῐσσῠβῐ́ου); second declension

1. rustic drinking-cup of wood, used by the Cyclops

Inflection

Second declension of τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον; τοῦ κῐσσῠβῐ́ου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον tò kissúbion	τὼ κῐσσῠβῐ́ω tṑ kissubíō	τᾰ̀ κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ tà kissúbia
Genitive	τοῦ κῐσσῠβῐ́ου toû kissubíou	τοῖν κῐσσῠβῐ́οιν toîn kissubíoin	τῶν κῐσσῠβῐ́ων tôn kissubíōn
Dative	τῷ κῐσσῠβῐ́ῳ tôi kissubíōi	τοῖν κῐσσῠβῐ́οιν toîn kissubíoin	τοῖς κῐσσῠβῐ́οις toîs kissubíois
Accusative	τὸ κῐσσῠ́βῐον tò kissúbion	τὼ κῐσσῠβῐ́ω tṑ kissubíō	τᾰ̀ κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ tà kissúbia
Vocative	κῐσσῠ́βῐον kissúbion	κῐσσῠβῐ́ω kissubíō	κῐσσῠ́βῐᾰ kissúbia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κισσύβιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “κισσύβιον”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• κισσύβιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κισσύβιον in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• 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