Νίσιβις

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• Νέσιβις (Nésibis), Νάσιβις (Násibis)

Etymology

From Aramaic ܢܨܝܼܒܝܼܢ (nəṣīḇīn).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ní.si.bis/ → /ˈni.si.βis/ → /ˈni.si.vis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /ní.si.bis/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈni.si.bis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.si.βis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈni.si.vis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈni.si.vis/

Proper noun

Νίσιβῐς • (Nísibis) f (genitive Νισίβῐος or Νισίβεως or Νισίβῐδος); third declension

1. Nisibis; Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ Νίσιβῐς; τῆς Νισίβῐος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νίσιβῐς hē Nísibis
Genitive	τῆς Νισίβῐος tês Nisíbios
Dative	τῇ Νισίβῑ têi Nisíbī
Accusative	τὴν Νίσιβῐν tḕn Nísibin
Vocative	Νίσιβῐ Nísibi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ Νίσιβῐς; τῆς Νισίβεως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νίσιβῐς hē Nísibis
Genitive	τῆς Νισίβεως tês Nisíbeōs
Dative	τῇ Νισίβει têi Nisíbei
Accusative	τὴν Νίσιβῐν tḕn Nísibin
Vocative	Νίσιβῐ Nísibi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ἡ Νίσιβῐς; τῆς Νισίβῐδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Νίσιβῐς hē Nísibis
Genitive	τῆς Νισίβῐδος tês Nisíbidos
Dative	τῇ Νισίβῐδῐ têi Nisíbidi
Accusative	τὴν Νισίβῐδᾰ tḕn Nisíbida
Vocative	Νίσιβῐς Nísibis
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• Νισιβηνός (Nisibēnós), Νεσιβηνός (Nesibēnós), Νασιβηνός (Nasibēnós), Νισιβᾱνός (Nisibānós)
• Νισιβίτης (Nisibítēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Νίσιβις (Nísivis)
• → Latin: Nisibis

References

• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,018
• Νίσιβις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette