κίβδος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Related to κίβδηλος (kíbdēlos, “fraudulent; fake, sham”), which see for the Semitic origin, through the idea of gold being adulterated by being made an alloy.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kíb.dos/ → /ˈciβ.ðos/ → /ˈciv.ðos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /kíb.dos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈkib.dos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈciβ.ðos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈciv.ðos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈciv.ðos/

Noun

κίβδος • (kíbdos) m (genitive κίβδου); second declension

1. dross or alloy of gold

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ κῐ́βδος; τοῦ κῐ́βδου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ κῐ́βδος ho kĭ́bdos	τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kĭ́bdō	οἱ κῐ́βδοι hoi kĭ́bdoi
Genitive	τοῦ κῐ́βδου toû kĭ́bdou	τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kĭ́bdoin	τῶν κῐ́βδων tôn kĭ́bdōn
Dative	τῷ κῐ́βδῳ tôi kĭ́bdōi	τοῖν κῐ́βδοιν toîn kĭ́bdoin	τοῖς κῐ́βδοις toîs kĭ́bdois
Accusative	τὸν κῐ́βδον tòn kĭ́bdon	τὼ κῐ́βδω tṑ kĭ́bdō	τοὺς κῐ́βδους toùs kĭ́bdous
Vocative	κῐ́βδε kĭ́bde	κῐ́βδω kĭ́bdō	κῐ́βδοι kĭ́bdoi
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κίβδος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κίβδος 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