τύβαρις

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Unexplained. Neumann argues against a connection with the toponym Σύβαρις (Súbaris) and instead, hesitantly, proposes to connect the word with Luwian [script needed] (tuwarsa, “vine”), whence also θύρσος (thúrsos, “thyrsus”). However, Furnée remains sceptical.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /tý.ba.ris/ → /ˈty.βa.ris/ → /ˈti.va.ris/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /tý.ba.ris/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈty.ba.ris/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.βa.ris/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈty.va.ris/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈti.va.ris/

Noun

τῠ́βᾰρῐς • (túbaris) m (genitive τῠβᾰ́ρῐος); third declension

1. kind of Dorian salad, celery pickled in vinegar

Declension

Third declension of ὁ τῠ́βᾰρῐς; τοῦ τῠβᾰ́ρῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ τῠ́βᾰρῐς ho túbaris	τὼ τῠβᾰ́ρῐε tṑ tubárie	οἱ τῠβᾰ́ρῐες hoi tubáries
Genitive	τοῦ τῠβᾰ́ρῐος toû tubários	τοῖν τῠβᾰρῐ́οιν toîn tubaríoin	τῶν τῠβᾰρῐ́ων tôn tubaríōn
Dative	τῷ τῠβᾰ́ρῑ tôi tubárī	τοῖν τῠβᾰρῐ́οιν toîn tubaríoin	τοῖς τῠβᾰ́ρῐσῐ / τῠβᾰ́ρῐσῐν toîs tubárisi(n)
Accusative	τὸν τῠ́βᾰρῐν tòn túbarin	τὼ τῠβᾰ́ρῐε tṑ tubárie	τοὺς τῠβᾰ́ρῑς / τῠβᾰ́ρῐᾰς toùs tubárīs / tubárias
Vocative	τῠ́βᾰρῐ túbari	τῠβᾰ́ρῐε tubárie	τῠβᾰ́ρῐες tubáries
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “τύβαρις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “τύβαρις”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1515