βαλβίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation with -ῖδ- like κηκίς (kēkís), κνημίς (knēmís) and κρηπίς (krēpís). According to Beekes, this word is a technical term borrowed from Pre-Greek.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /bal.bís/ → /βalˈβis/ → /valˈvis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /bal.bís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /balˈbis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /βalˈβis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /valˈvis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /valˈvis/

Noun

βᾰλβῐ́ς • (balbís) f (genitive βᾰλβῖδος); third declension

1. rope drawn across the racecourse at the starting and finishing point
2. (in the plural) posts to which this rope was attached
3. turning post in a racecourse

   Synonyms: καμπή (kampḗ), καμπτήρ (kamptḗr), νύσσα (nússa)

4. platform from which the quoit was thrown

Inflection

Third declension of ἡ βᾰλβῐ́ς; τῆς βᾰλβῖδος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ βᾰλβῐ́ς hē balbís	τὼ βᾰλβῖδε tṑ balbîde	αἱ βᾰλβῖδες hai balbîdes
Genitive	τῆς βᾰλβῖδος tês balbîdos	τοῖν βᾰλβῑ́δοιν toîn balbī́doin	τῶν βᾰλβῑ́δων tôn balbī́dōn
Dative	τῇ βᾰλβῖδῐ têi balbîdi	τοῖν βᾰλβῑ́δοιν toîn balbī́doin	ταῖς βᾰλβῖσῐ / βᾰλβῖσῐν taîs balbîsi(n)
Accusative	τὴν βᾰλβῖδᾰ tḕn balbîda	τὼ βᾰλβῖδε tṑ balbîde	τᾱ̀ς βᾰλβῖδᾰς tā̀s balbîdas
Vocative	βᾰλβῐ́ς balbís	βᾰλβῖδε balbîde	βᾰλβῖδες balbîdes
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

• βαλβιδοῦχος (balbidoûkhos)
• βαλβιδώδης (balbidṓdēs)

 

Further reading

• “βαλβίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “βαλβίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• βαλβίς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• βαλβίς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
• 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